My Epson scanner now works - without USB 2

[alan]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, David Fletcher wrote:

> This sort of problem seems to have been around for a while now. I've found a
> way to get mine to work with FC5, by disabling USB 2 support on the
> motherboard using a BIOS setting. So long as the scanner is connected to a
> motherboard USB connector and switched on BEFORE logging in. I've written up
> my findings and opened a fresh bugzilla report:-
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186766
>
> It would be really useful I think if anybody who has an Epson scanner could
> take a look at this bug, and see if the same is true for their equipment.
>
> Many thanks to anybody who can try this out.

What model of scanner?

I have an Epson scanner, but have never seen that problem.  I do know that 
my Epson scanner will not work through a USB hub.  It has to be directly 
plagged in.  (And that is not just Linux.  Windows has the same problem. 
It says so in the instalation instructions.)

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