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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Perfection V500 - no commands to scanner (solved)
(Peter Hemmings)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:48:11 +0100
From: Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
To: bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Perfection V500 - no commands to scanner
(solved)
Message-ID: <543BF43B.8030804@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed

Hi,

For completeness (and anyone interested) this is what to do to get it
working with rpm packages:

Used this info:
http://thedestitutedeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/setting-up-epson-usb-scanners-on-fedora.html


Did some more checking and found I had not installed iscan plugin package:

http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModuleFromResult

All now works OK

(Some) Scanners are still not simple to get working!



On 11/10/14 22:58, Peter Hemmings wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I updated from fedora 18 (32bit) to Fedora 20 (64bit) a few weeks ago
> and everything seemed OK but....
>
> was just asked for a couple of scans and realized I had no scanner S/W!
>
> As I used "Simple Scan" previously (worked OK), I installed it and the
> icsan data/core from the Epson driver site. It now reports:
>
> "Could not send commands to scanner, check scanners status".
>
> I checked it is plugged in and it still works on my old fc 18.
>
> Is there a problem with using latest kernels or has anyone got an Epson
> Perfection V500 to work OK?
>
> I have the following:
>
> Fedora 20 3.16.3-200.fc20.x86_64
>
> PS did scans on fc18 and posted them off OK.
>
>
> Regards


Regards

--
Peter H



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