USB and Scanners

[Stuart Sears]

On Sunday 13 February 2005 22:41, David Fletcher wrote:
> Why does the scanner keep appearing as different names in /dev/? If it had
> the same name each time, could the name not simply be edited
> into /etc/sane.d/epson.conf or /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf?
This is udev doing it's 'thang'.
> Any chance of making it work like this in future updates?
probably the best way to deal with this is to write a custom UDEV rule for 
your scanner so that it always turns up as /dev/scanner0 (or even /dev/kermit 
if that takes your fancy) every time the kernel detects it.
http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php
will give you a runthrough for this including examples for printers and 
cameras. Scanners can be dealt with the same way if you need them to be.

> Thanks for taking time to read all this.
no problem.
:-)

HTH

Stuart
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