F11: Espon Perfection 2480 USB scanner

[lanas]

All,

  Is there a HOWTO around on how to use an Epson perfection 2480 USB
scanner on Fedora 11 x86_64 ?

  So far sane-find-scanner (run as root) returns two devices:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x146a [Knobloch-GmbH],
product=0x0003 [fischertechnik Robo RF Data Link (Knobloch GmbH)])
at libusb:004:002

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON],
product=0x0121 [EPSON Scanner])
at libusb:001:002

I hope that the first one does not confuse the system.  It is *not* a scanner.

Then scanimage -L returns:

device `snapscan:libusb:001:002' is a EPSON EPSON Scanner flatbed scanner

And when I try something like:

scanimage -d 'snapscan:libusb:001:002'

It returns:

[snapscan] Cannot open firmware file /usr/share/sane/snapscan/your-firmwarefile.bin.

[snapscan] Edit the firmware file entry in snapscan.conf.

scanimage: open of device snapscan:libusb:001:002 failed: Invalid argument

I have no idea what this is about.

Any help welcomed.

Cheers.


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[Bill Davidsen]

lanas wrote:

> All,
>
>   Is there a HOWTO around on how to use an Epson perfection 2480 USB
> scanner on Fedora 11 x86_64 ?
>
>   So far sane-find-scanner (run as root) returns two devices:
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x146a [Knobloch-GmbH],
> product=0x0003 [fischertechnik Robo RF Data Link (Knobloch GmbH)])
> at libusb:004:002
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON],
> product=0x0121 [EPSON Scanner])
> at libusb:001:002
>
> I hope that the first one does not confuse the system.  It is *not* a scanner.
>
> Then scanimage -L returns:
>
> device `snapscan:libusb:001:002' is a EPSON EPSON Scanner flatbed scanner
>
> And when I try something like:
>
> scanimage -d 'snapscan:libusb:001:002'
>
> It returns:
>
> [snapscan] Cannot open firmware file /usr/share/sane/snapscan/your-firmwarefile.bin.
>
> [snapscan] Edit the firmware file entry in snapscan.conf.
>
> scanimage: open of device snapscan:libusb:001:002 failed: Invalid argument
>
> I have no idea what this is about.
>
> Any help welcomed.
>

It means it can't find firmware to install, and even if your device doesn't need
an upgrade it won't go forward. I found where to install the firmware, but that
was years ago (FC6) and I have used iscan since and can't really help. Of ten
there is firmware on the CD with the device which you can convert and install,
both using stuff I can't remember. At least now you know what's happening, I
suspect someone else will give you the details.

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[Mogens Kjaer]

On 11/01/2009 12:21 AM, lanas wrote:
...
> [snapscan] Edit the firmware file entry in snapscan.conf.

On my Epson scanner I had to:

Find the file Esfw41.bin on the CD that came with the
scanner. This file is 64000 bytes long.

Put it in /usr/share/sane/snapscan/

Edit /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf, make sure that
there's a line like:

firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/Esfw41.bin

Sometimes xsane doesn't find the scanner at the first
try, then one has to start xsane again.

Mogens

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