On 1/10/06, Gregory Pittman <gpittman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nat Gross wrote: > > >On 1/10/06, Gregory Pittman <gpittman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >>Nat Gross wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Can someone please give me a little 'play by play' how to get a Cannon > >>>3000 usb scanner working with FC 4 (fully updated via yum) working. > >>>Tons of conflicting googled info makes it sound more complex then it should be. > >>> > >>>Thank you all; > >>>-nat > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > >>If you can't do it with sane, I don't know how you can do it, and the > >>sane site says that this scanner is "unsupported." > >>http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON > >> > >>Greg > >> > >> > >> > ><sigh> > > > > > > > If it makes you feel any better, I've had a Visioneer 8100 scanner for > several years now; it remains unsupported, and one of the few reasons I > hang onto a partition with Windows, yet port all the output to work with > it in Linux. Tough enough to reboot/shutdown just to get a scan, worse when Windoz would only come up in 'safe mode'. No time to troubleshoot windoz. > A part of me hopes that some day the scanner will die, but > "unfortunately" it keeps working without problems. Maybe we (we=Any Linux user stuck with a scanner) get together and offer the complete pile of scanners on e-bay (thousands of scanners?), organize a web site, and split the proceeds to get ourselves new scanners. -nat
