Re: sane 0.71 and microtek E3

Eric Goebelbecker (eric@mxn.com)
Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:40:52 -0500

Thus spake Mark <kestrel@falcon.warren-wilson.edu> on Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 01:29:23PM -0500 :

> Bob: don't feel bad, the EXACT same thing happened to me. I was
> installing SANE on a P166 running Red Hat 5.0, 2.0.33 with a Microtek E3.
> We can get mtekscan to work, but SANE does the same thing, compiled file,
> pretty sure configured correctly, blah blah yackety smackety, can see the
> scanner, but when you scan, it waits for a minute and gives an I/O error
> message and the scanner needs to be turned off before it can see it again.
> I was reluctant to post anything because I thought I had done something
> wrong, but if mtekscan works, one would think I set up the SCSI stuff
> properly, now wouldn't one? Would really like to get this to work, else
> our College Sys Admin has threatened to put 95 on the machine!!! If anyone
> has gotten SANE to work with an E3, please write me so we can save a
> computer from the horrid 95 virus!!! (OK, so I have played xbill too
> much...)
>
I'm running 4.2 on a PPRO 200. I have a similar problem with
my E3 if I turn it off and on again, and try to use it without
rebooting.

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