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    Re: How do I get an Epson scanner going?

    Quote Originally Posted by alpinescrambler View Post
    Elsewhere. How do I get it off the disk, and to the right place? Or find it, for that matter?

    My previous scanner was an Epson 3490, and I had to extract and copy over the firmware file for that scanner to work. The firmware file was named esfw52.bin.

    I just checked my hard drive, and what I assume is the firmware file for my Epson V30 is:

    /usr/share/esci/esfw8b.bin

    I did not install this file, so either it was installed as part of Ubuntu or the DEB files that I got from Avasys installed it.

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    Re: How do I get an Epson scanner going?

    Quote Originally Posted by kaibob View Post
    My previous scanner was an Epson 3490, and I had to extract and copy over the firmware file for that scanner to work. The firmware file was named esfw52.bin.

    I just checked my hard drive, and what I assume is the firmware file for my Epson V30 is:

    /usr/share/esci/esfw8b.bin

    I did not install this file, so either it was installed as part of Ubuntu or the DEB files that I got from Avasys installed it.

    Hmmm... I enter that, and I get:

    bash: /usr/share/esci/esfw8b.bin: No such file or directory

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    Re: How do I get an Epson scanner going?

    I figured out what I did wrong:

    When I followed the instructions below, I entered

    04b8:0131

    instead of:

    04b8 0131

    I used a colon instead of a space, because that is what I saw when I entered lsusb.

    That screwed everything up. When I went back and did EVERYTHING over again, and the only change I made was that, it WORKED!

    THANKS FOR THE HELP, EVERYBODY!

    (The instructions I erred on: )


    open a terminal and copy and paste the following:
    Code:
    gksudo gedit /etc/sane.d/epson.conf
    then you will see the following:
    Code:
    # epson.conf
    #
    # here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend
    #
    # SCSI scanner:
    scsi EPSON
    # for the GT-6500:
    scsi "EPSON SC"
    #
    # Parallel port scanner:
    #pio 0x278
    #pio 0x378
    #pio 0x3BC
    #
    # USB scanner:
    # There are two different methods of configuring a USB scanner: libusb and the kernel module
    # For any system with libusb support (which is pretty much any recent Linux distribution) the
    # following line is sufficient. This however assumes that the connected scanner (or to be more
    # accurate, it's device ID) is known to the backend.
    usb
    # For libusb support for unknown scanners use the following command
    # usb <product ID> <device ID>
    # e.g.:
    # usb 0x4b8 0x110
    # And for the scanner module, use the following configuration:
    #usb /dev/usbscanner0
    #usb /dev/usb/scanner0
    the line that is in bold letters needs # to be removed from the beginning of the line and product ID and device ID inserted.
    you will need to do Code:
    lsusb
    to find out the product ID and device ID.

    an example of what lsusb looks like, and what #'s you need are: Code:
    ed@wolfenstein:~$ lsusb
    Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
    Bus 001 Device 077: ID 03f0:7e04 Hewlett-Packard
    Bus 001 Device 076: ID 0764:0501 Cyber Power System, Inc.
    Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1241:1203 Belkin
    Bus 001 Device 005: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
    Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
    the #'s in bold are what you need.

    close and save.

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    Re: How do I get an Epson scanner going?

    Fantastic, I am glad to see you are up and running.

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    Re: How do I get an Epson scanner going?

    Quote Originally Posted by SoFl W View Post
    I was able to get a workforce all-in-one working. If you check the Epson website it should give you a link to an external website with drivers and packages.
    See this link for more info.

    The Epson Linux driver website

    Following the instructions here http://avasys.jp/eng/linux_driver/do...pr/README.html

    at: /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

    I get this error:
    -bash: /etc/init.d/cupsys: No such file or directory

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    Re: How do I get an Epson scanner going?

    I just got my Epson Perfection 4490 working on Maverick AMD64. The only trick was to use the debs indicated as: "deb 64bit package [libltdl7] (for Ubuntu 8.10 or later)". My first try at installation had failed because I used the libltdl3 version (even after installing libltdl3 manually).

    I also did not have to do anything with the groups.

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