My system is running Linux Mandrake 8.1 and the scanner seems to work fine
using the firmware supplied on the CD coming with the scanner (snape20.bin).
Without the firmware upload xsane does not find the scanner.
Remark: the scanner works without firmware upload if it has been used on windows
before and not powered down since.
To use the scanner I follow this sequence
1) Boot the machine
2) Power up the scanner
3) modprobe scanner vendor=0x06bd product=0x2091
4) agfafirm -v /dev/usbscanner snape20.bin
After step 4) the green light on the scanner flashes for a few seconds and the scanner head moves
I got the firmware from the agfa install disk (it was called snape20.bin and
I also found it in windows/system on my windows partition after installing on
windows).
The output from agfafirm -v /dev/usbscanner snape20.bin was
Uploading new firmware...
Done!
Scanner Information (from scanner)
Vendor: AGFA
Version: 0062
Model: SNAPSCAN e20
Firmware date: Tue Nov 14 2000 14:14
Log file and debugging outputs:
tail /var/log/messages
Dec 30 22:48:04 localhost kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2,
assigned device number 2
Dec 30 22:48:04 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod
0x6bd/0x2091) is not claimed by any active driver.
Dec 30 22:48:04 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no drivers for USB
product 6bd/2091/100
Dec 30 22:48:33 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbscanner
Dec 30 22:48:33 localhost kernel: scanner.c: probe_scanner: User specified
USB scanner -- Vendor:Product - 6bd:2091
Dec 30 22:48:33 localhost kernel: scanner.c: USB Scanner support registered.
cat /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf
usb AGFA
/dev/usbscanner
cat /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
snapscan
ls -la /dev/usbscanner
crw------- 1 billy root 180, 48 Dec 25 22:07 /dev/usbscanner