problem in using iscan by Epson CX9300F

**fered** · March 17th, 2010

Hi
After downloading and installing iscan and run it i see this message:

Could not send command to scanner. Check scanner's status.

after command sane-find-scanner:
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x083a) at libusb:001:003
# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

and this message is result of scanimage command:
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

please help me.

**ellgor** · March 17th, 2010

Hi,

It takes a reboot or start it from a terminal with :

sudo iscan

Regards, Ellgor.

**fered** · March 17th, 2010

Same result!

not solved...

**sisco311** · March 17th, 2010

Please post the output of:

Code:

cat /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf

Code:

ls -al /dev/usb*

and

Code:

id

**fered** · March 17th, 2010

1-
# epkowa.conf -- sample configuration for the EPKOWA SANE backend
# Copyright (C) 2004, 2008, 2009 Olaf Meeuwissen
#
# See sane-epkowa(5), sane-usb(5) and sane-scsi(5) for details.

# Detect all devices supported by the backend.
# If you don't have a SCSI device, you can comment out the "scsi"
# keyword. Similarly for the other keywords.
#
usb
0x04b8 0x083a
#scsi

# For any USB scanner not known to the backend (yet), you may, at your
# own peril(!!), force the backend to recognise and use it via libusb.
# You can do so by the following configuration command:
#
# usb <USB vendor ID> <USB product ID>
#
# SEIKO EPSON's USB vendor ID is '0x04b8' (without quotes). In order
# to find the USB product ID, use lsusb(1).
# A sample configuration for the Epson Perfection 1650 (Epson GT-8200),
# which has a product ID of 0x0110, would look as follows:
#
#usb 0x04b8 0x0110

# For SCSI devices not detected, you can add an entry like:
#
# scsi EPSON GT-20000
#
# where the GT-20000 bit corresponds to the SCSI model information as
# shown in the output of dmesg(1) or in the /var/log/kern.log file.

# Network attached devices may be made to work by first installing the
# (non-free) iscan-network-nt package and then adding configuration lines
# as per information below.
#
# For each network attached device, you must add an entry as follows:
#
# net <IP-address|hostname> [port-number]
#
# Ask your network administrator for the device's IP address or check
# for yourself on the panel (if it has one). The port-number is very
# optional and defaults to 1865.
# Note that network attached devices are not queried unless configured
# in this file.
#
# Examples:
#
#net 192.16.136.2 1865
#net 10.0.0.1
#net scanner.mydomain.com

2-
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2010-03-17 14:39 /dev/usblp0 -> usb/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 253, 0 2010-03-17 18:08 /dev/usbmon0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 253, 1 2010-03-17 18:08 /dev/usbmon1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 253, 2 2010-03-17 18:08 /dev/usbmon2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 253, 3 2010-03-17 18:08 /dev/usbmon3
crw-rw---- 1 root root 253, 4 2010-03-17 18:08 /dev/usbmon4
crw-rw---- 1 root root 253, 5 2010-03-17 18:08 /dev/usbmon5

/dev/usb:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2010-03-17 14:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4220 2010-03-17 16:28 ..
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 2010-03-17 14:39 lp0

3-
uid=1000(ali) gid=1000(ali) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),10 4(lpadmin),114(admin),117(sambashare),1000(ali)

**sisco311** · March 17th, 2010

Add your user to the lp gruop:

Code:

sudo gpaswd -a username lp

replace usrname with your login name.

Edit the /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf file:

Code:

gksu gedit /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf

to look like this:

Code:

# epkowa.conf -- sample configuration for the EPKOWA SANE backend
# Copyright (C) 2004, 2008, 2009 Olaf Meeuwissen 
# 
# See sane-epkowa(5), sane-usb(5) and sane-scsi(5) for details. 

# Detect all devices supported by the backend.
# If you don't have a SCSI device, you can comment out the "scsi"
# keyword. Similarly for the other keywords. 
# 
usb 0x04b8 0x083a
usb /dev/usb/lp0 
#scsi
...

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