Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263019AbUDLVoO (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:44:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263136AbUDLVoO (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:44:14 -0400 Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net ([212.159.14.212]:28172 "EHLO ptb-relay01.plus.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263019AbUDLVoK (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:44:10 -0400 Message-ID: <407B0E42.9060509@mauve.plus.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:46:42 +0100 From: Ian Stirling User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wolfgang Fritz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Where did the USB generic scanner driver go? 2.6.5 References: <407AC3A1.8090503@mauve.plus.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 924 Lines: 30 Wolfgang Fritz wrote: > Ian Stirling wrote: > >>I can't seem to find where this has moved. >>Has it been obsoleted, or removed for some reason? >>Many thanks. >>Ian Stirling. >>- > > > This driver has been removed from the 2.6 kernel. You have to use libusb > instead. I found the link below helpful: > > http://khk.net/sane/libusb.html > > Make sure you have a recent sane package installed. > I've upgraded to the latest sane (the prereleases) My scanner does not work, the backend manpage saying nothing about libusb, suggesting it may not have been tested with it. If the scanner module was deprecated, wouldn't some notice on the config entry have been a good idea? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/