Has anyone ever made scanning work?

Richard England rlengland at verizon.net
Tue Aug 14 06:08:44 UTC 2007


alan wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:13:11 -0400
>> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone ever made scanning actually work with FC6 or FC7? I have
>>> been trying in spare time for months, and bought a brand new Epson
>>> perfection 2480 Photo scanner because it was supported.
>>
>> Hello, Bill
>> I have an Epson Perfection 2400 Scanner.  I have been using it with
>> Fedora Core 6 ever since it was released.  MAY have used it with FC3,
>> can't remember.  I skipped FC4, so I can't comment on that.
>> In every case, it has, like another poster noted, "Just Worked."  For
>> example, after I did my most recent fresh install of FC6, the scanner
>> worked perfectly without having to do anything to make it work.
>
> Just remember that scanners will not work if they are plugged into a 
> USB hub.  Not certain why, but it acts the same under Windows.
>

I've not found that to be the case with My Canoscan Lide 30.  I 
regularly hot plugged it between two unpowered hubs to switch between 
Windows and FC6.

But, YMMV.

~~R




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