plustek: Plustek USB UT12
Subject:
Re: Plustek USB UT12
From:
"Jaeger, Gerhard" ####@####.####
Date:
9 Dec 2001 17:32:21 -0000
Message-Id: <01120918280100.00909@ruebennase>
Hi, the problem is, that Plustek has sold several UT12 types!
The early ones AFAIK use the parallelport stuff and a parallel to USB
bridge - they are in fact not supported. The only UT12 models, that
are supported have the 0x17 as product ID.
And it seems, that you have an older one - sorry
Gerhard
On Sunday, 9. December 2001 18:14, Peter Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've downloaded and installed sane backends 1.0.6 and then the latest
> version
> of your driver (0_40_10) and am having a few difficulties. I know its
> developers
> only but what hell I thought I'd give it a go. I've got a Plustek UT12,
> using your
> instrustions in the archive I've managed to get my system (Mandrake 8.1) to
> recognise my scanner but all my attempts to communicate with it have
> failed.
>
> Sane-Find-Scanner reports that it has found a scanner with the
> following:
> Vendor ID: 0x07B3 Product ID: 0x0001
>
> The command "Cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" turns up with a version number
> of 1.0. The ScanImage cammand can't seem to find the scanner, if I specify
> the location (e.g. plustek:/dev/usb/scanner) it returns a segmentation
> fault error message.
>
> I did attempt to edit the plustek-devs.c file and add my scanner in but
> this doesn't seem to have had any affect what-so-ever.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated,
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Peter Johnson,
> ####@####.####
