My scanner don't work my latest try... [alpha:root] [/home/heberv]$ scanimage -L device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname DC10plus[0] virtual device device `snapscan:libusb:003:002' is a AGFA SNAPSCAN flatbed scanner [alpha:root] [~]$ chmod a+w /proc/bus/usb/003/002 [alpha:root] [~]$ ls -la /proc/bus/usb/003/ total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 9 08:03 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Jun 9 08:03 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43 Jun 9 08:03 001 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 57 Jun 9 18:26 002 [alpha:root] [~]$ xsane [snapscan] Cannot open firmware file /path/to/your/firmware/file.bin. [snapscan] Edit the firmware file entry in snapscan.conf. [alpha:root] [~]$ chmod a+w /etc/sane.d/*.bin [alpha:root] [~]$ ls -la /etc/sane.d/*.bin -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 30653 Jun 6 20:01 /etc/sane.d/u176v042.bin snapscan.conf: # Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if # firmware upload is needed by the scanner firmware /etc/sane.d/u176v042.bin fstab: none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults,devmode=0666 0 0 [alpha:root] [/home/heberv]$ rpm -Uvh sane-backends-1.0.13-6.i386.rpm