This is my first attempt at scanning under Fedora, so i have little or no knowledge of how to do so.. I have done the following, but have no idea of how to get this up and running with Fedora.. can anyone help please? All the best Steve Sheldon 'The more I know, the more I know I know little' [root@desktop root]# sane-find-scanner # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x220e [CanoScan], chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:002:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports can't be # detected by this program. [root@desktop root]# scanimage -L device `plustek:libusb:002:002' is a Canon N1240U/LiDE30 USB flatbed scanner [root@desktop root]# modprobe scanner vendor=0x04a9 product=0x220e FATAL: Module scanner not found. [root@desktop root]#