Canon CanoScan N670U not recognised

[Rave Gloves]

You cannot use USB support on the open source version of VB by default. Im looking for a way to activate it.

[PhantmKllr]

You cannot use USB support on the open source version of VB by default. Im looking for a way to activate it.

Why not use the commercial version of Virtual Box?

[Rave Gloves]

Why not use the commercial version of Virtual Box?

As far as im aware it costs money, if not do you have a guide handy to installing it?

[Rave Gloves]

I tried to install from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

And i got an error on the software centre:

There seems to be a programming error in aptdaemon, the software that allows you to install/remove software and to perform other package management related tasks. Please report this error at http://launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+filebug and retry.

Any guesses on the problem?

[Rave Gloves]

to fix this problem i had to do this

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys DB141E2302FDF932

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

[PhantmKllr]

As far as im aware it costs money...

Actually, the commercial version doesn't cost any money. It just isn't open source.

I tried to install from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

Looks like you've already found the commercial version.

[Rave Gloves]

Cheers for your help , Only now need to get windows xp installed to it. When i go to install it there is just a black screen and nothing happens. do i maybe need more ram set in the partition or more space on the partition?

[741Baus]

Hi Rave Gloves , have you installed printconf

sudo apt-get install printconf

I had a similar problem getting a canon all in one to be even recognized installing this enabled me to print, scan from browser and e-mail client.

[laidback]

I have a CanonScan N670U with USB, v9.04 picks it up without any problem. I don't have printconf installed either.
No doubt there is something I have installed that makes the difference, but what?

I've just checked my new version of 10.04LTS with the default Simple Scan app. That works too. I've hardly done anything to this installation yet apart from installing the Nvidia driver and standard codecs for DVDs and CDs.

I know that doesn't really help but it gives some confirmation to the idea that there's something unusual with your setup.

[Rave Gloves]

Im starting to think that the scanner is actually broken, i installed windows XP on a virtual machine and still nothing. No idea how it could be broken mind you.