# Re: HP ScanJet 5p - sane can't use device

Keith Gross (kegross@webaccess.net)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:46:56 -0600

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I can't seem to find any documentation on how to use SANE's find-scanner
tool. I did find a utility called hpinq which indicates that sg1 is the
correct device. Just to be sure I tried all the sg* devices.

Peter Kirchgessner wrote:

> Hi Keith,
>
> try SANEs find-scanner tool to find out the correct device. Maybe you
> need to link to /dev/sg0.
>
> --Peter
>
> Keith Gross wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use sane with a SCSI HP 5p scanner. The problem, the
> > device does not show up as a usable device:
> > # scanimage -L
> > device `pnm:0' is a Noname PNM file reader virtual device
> > device `pnm:1' is a Noname PNM file reader virtual device
> >
> > Linux (COL 2.2) see's the scanner as shown in the following dmesg:
> > Vendor: HP Model: C5110A Rev: 3635
> > Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Detected scsi generic sgb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
> >
> > The hp.conf file contains the following:
> > scsi HP
> > /dev/scanner
> >
> > The /dev/scanner is a sym link to /dev/sgb (sgb links to sg1) and
> > permissions are set to 666.
> >
> > Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated.
> >
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