On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:57 -0600, John Pierce wrote:
> Hello, I have an Epson CX6600 MFP, this scanner worked flawlessly
> under FC3. Granted I had to add the device id to the hotplug scanner
> map and create a user and group named scanner and setup the sane
> backend. All in all it was not difficult following the guides,
> howtos, and manpages.
>
> But not now, under FC3 when the system booted I ended up with a
> symlink named scanner??????????????????? that pointed to the usb
> device. Now the only usb entries in /dev are /dev/usb/lp0 (the
> printer portion of this MFP) and the following three entries usbdev1.0
> usbdev1.1 and usbdev1.2.
>
> I have tried to make my own rules for udev, but to no avail. I am
> completely stumped on this one now.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> John
>
I have an Epson 1250 that was found on install and works perfectly (fc4
+ selinux, warning only). My guess is to rip out all your old scanner
configs, symlinks - remove the old backend and frontend - reinstall and
it should auto config correctly.
gary
