[ale] Epson Scanner

[Jim Kinney]

I think all you need is  a link to /usr/lib/sane that shows up in
/usr/local/lib. See below:

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Jim Moore<mo9916 at numail.org> wrote:
> Am trying to get an Epson Perfection 2450 Photo to run under Debian
> Lenny with a KDE desktop.
> This is on a Dell Dimension 4700.
> Running "lsusb" gives the following results:
>
> Bus 005 Device 006: ID 04b8:0112 Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 2450
> Bus 005 Device 005: ID 0781:5151 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro 256/512MB
> Flash Drive
> Bus 005 Device 003: ID 1385:4251 Netgear, Inc
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:3010 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>
> Now I found the Avasys site and downloaded and installed the Debian
> package for the scanner.
>
> When I try to run  /iscan/ I get the message :
>
>
> "Could not send command to scanner. Check the scanner's status"
>
> Found this post on the Avasys message board:
>
> I tried everything to get my brand new Epson TX800FW scanning to Linux
> (Ubuntu 9.04).
> The iscan deb package wouldn't install so I managed to compile iscan
> 2.19.0 from
> source after installing a heap of required miscellaneous packages but
> iscan just
> refused to recognise the scanner.
> ("Could not send command to scanner. Check the scanner's status")
>
> I finally resorted to running an strace on iscan and found that it was
> looking for
> the epkowa libraries in /usr/local/lib whereas the iscan "make install"
> had installed
> the libraries in /usr/local/lib/sane.
>
> Setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib/sane fixed my problem.
>
> Note that this was after adding a line "epkowa" to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
>
> I also had to add the udev rule for sane to allow members of the scanner
> group to
> access the device. To do this, I created
> /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libsane.rules and
> added the single line:
> SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0844", MODE="664",
> GROUP="scanner"
> The vender ID and product ID having been obtained from sane-find-scanner.
> Then had to run /etc/init.d/udev restart.
>


HERE!!!

> If I open /usr/local/lib  with nano, it's empty.
>
/usr/local/lib is a directory. nano should show it empty. From a shell
run (as root)
ln -s /usr/lib/sane /usr/local/lib/sane



> I opened /etc/sane.d/dll.conf with nano and added the line "epkowa" as
> suggested.
>
> I'm still nowhere and getting the message: ("Could not send command to
> scanner. Check the scanner's status")
> when I try to start /iscan/.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?  Alternatively is there another route
> that might possible lead to being able to use the scanner?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Moore
>
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