{"id":442,"date":"2004-08-29T12:42:48","date_gmt":"2004-08-29T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20040829124248"},"modified":"2004-08-29T20:58:59","modified_gmt":"2004-08-29T20:58:59","slug":"29082004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/29082004\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora hardware support"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is about computers, so if that bores you click on the pretty picture instead of reading on!<\/p>\n

\"Halifax<\/a>When adding new hardware to a machine running Linux it will either work straight away, or it will be a challenge to your patience. For example if you add a new Ethernet card to your machine there’s a very good chance that on rebooting it will be found and will work with no extra software being required.<\/p>\n

When hardware isn’t fully supported however things become complex and trying. Take for example the Epson Perfection 2480 scanner that we purchased yesterday. I had already researched Linux support, and found that neither the official Epson software for Linux (iScan<\/a>), nor SANE<\/a> support it. Just this week, however, on the development mailing list for SANE there was a thread about this scanner, and a couple of patches that enabled support for it.<\/p>\n

To get the Epson Perfection 2480 scanner working I had to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Download the latest development source code for SANE from CVS.<\/li>\n
  2. Apply the patches described in these<\/a> two<\/a> posts.<\/li>\n
  3. Build the modified source, and install.<\/li>\n
  4. Find the scanner firmware (Esfw41.bin) from the Epson CD. To do this I had to install cabextract, and then unarchive the file ESCAN\/ModUsd.cab from the CD.<\/li>\n
  5. Edit the \/usr\/local\/etc\/sane.d\/snapscan.conf file to set the location of the firmware file.<\/li>\n
  6. Add the line “usb 0x04b8 0x0121” to the \/usr\/local\/etc\/sane.d\/snapscan.conf file.<\/li>\n
  7. Install the SANE hotplug scripts from the tools directory.<\/li>\n
  8. Create a new group called “scanner”, and add myself to this group.<\/li>\n
  9. Download the latest XSANE front-end, build from source and install.<\/li>\n
  10. Logout and log back in again so that adding myself to the scanner group would take effect.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After all this the scanner now works. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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