Hi,

I have an Acer scaner (MiraScan 340P) which works fine under windows. But I can't seen to make it work under linux at all.
I get the message that says " No devices found"!
I use RHEL with kernel 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL (actually it is a distribution called scienific linux, from www.scientificlinux.org )

The following is the output of /sbin/lspci
=============================================================================
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev 44)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 11)
00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30)
00:0a.0 Communication controller: Analog Devices SM56 PCI modem
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III] (rev 86)
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c368 [Trio 3D/2X] (rev 02)
=============================================================================
I then used $ sane-find-scanner , and I got;
# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

What does all that mean? and how can I make it work?

hhegab

I had a look to see if Sane supported the scanner. Here is the link. http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html

The 340P is not listed. If that is a parallel port scanner, you are probably out of luck. Have a read through the Sane-project web site. Unless some one has written a driver for that scanner, or you do, it won't work under Linux.

If it is a USB scanner on the other hand, they are much easier to get working.