libusb on FC2

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Wed Oct 27 08:03:59 EDT 2004


Don't put the comma after defaults in that line. I copied that from an 
internal note I had here, sorry about that.

Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:

> I just converted my my wife to Linux. However, she needs a scanner and 
> the one we had was not supported by sane. I recently bought a Plustek 
> UT24 which is supported. After a lot of reading and configuring I can 
> finally access it as root and actually scan images. When I try as a 
> non root user it complains that no scanner is found. I've set 
> /dev/usb/scanner* to root  and group scanner. I've placed all users in 
> group scanner with read write permissions. The scanner is set up with 
> libusb on Fedora core 2. I'd rather not require my wife to become root 
> to use this scanner. Furthermore, I  intend to allow network access to 
> this scanner so other users can access it. Does any one have any 
> ideas? libusb is suppose to be user space and it does work as root. 
> I'm baffled.
> Bob Stockdale




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