How do I get an Epson scanner going?

[kaibob]

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.

[alpinescrambler]

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

[alpinescrambler]

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.

[SoFl W]

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

[progone]

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

[skillet-thief]

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.

[FellWanderer]

Please see my blog.

http://wilkiecat.wordpress.com/2012/...-ubuntu-10-10/