mounting a usb scanner ? was (Re: [ydl-gen] Mounting SD Memory card)

[Derick Centeno]

Thank you Brian and Cian for your suggestions.  I also went onto the 
net and picked up some other information, which not surprisingly 
matches what was already provided here.

What I discovered is this:
When I did tail as recommended I had to go nearly 300 lines back to 
attempt to determine anything readable past all the errors the kernel 
was reporting for the standard kernel provided with YDL 4.0.1.  I also 
took an idea from Une, and attempted to discover if lsusb would provide 
anything useful.  Unfortunately, I received the same error codes when I 
attempted to run it.

Une, I believe the following link could be more useful to you.

http://www.linux-sxs.org./

When you get there look along the left row and click the category 
Hardware.  In the right, you will find a list of all sorts of devices.  
Click upon Scanners.
Now for the bad news.  As informative as the directions are, they 
worked for an old kernel and an old version of SANE which has not been 
updated since 2001.
Again what may be useful is the overall approach and what is discussed 
as a procedure to attempt.  The actual commands may not work.  You may 
pick up some more techniques and ideas by referring to Flash Card 
Readers, also under the USB category.  Suggestion: Each subject area 
you cover under USB will provide a little more background regarding 
what you are attempting to do.  However, unless you try you won't 
really know.  The author is perhaps not the best, but he certainly is 
informative and as you have been asking the same question in regards to 
your scanner problem for awhile you may want to investigate what he has 
to say.

You will notice that he may repeat what I already mentioned, which is 
you may have to install a modern kernel with the options for particular 
drivers properly selected and then build and install that kernel first 
and then proceed with attempting the invocations and commands you wish 
after the appropriate drivers have been installed.  There is another 
way to install drivers of course, and he does discuss that.  Select 
Bedtime Reading and along the right you'll find a list of commands ... 
select Modprobe and read carefully.

Best wishes....

On Dec 10, 2005, at 4:10 AM, Une bévue wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 03:07:04 +0000
> Cian Duffy <myob87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> mkdir /mnt/WHATEVER
>> mount -t vfat /dev/sdSOMETHING /mnt/WHATEVER
>
> is it somehow the same for an usb scanner ?
> does we have to mount it ?
>
> if i do :
> $ sudo mount -t usbfs none /proc/usb
> i get the mounting point /proc/usb doesn't exists, i should mention 
> that my fstab contains only this line concerning /proc :
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults       
>  0 0
>
> i do have also :
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620 
>  0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults       
>  0 0
> which i don't know anything about usefullness.
>
>
> grep usb /proc/mounts
>
> gives nothing too...
>
> /sbin/lsusb  gives :
> Unknown line at line 4969
> <snip />
> Unknown line at line 5004
>
> then the lsusb (version 0.11) seems to be not working well ?
>
> then i've compile another version (usbutils-0.71), installed in 
> /usr/local/sbin/, giving nothing more...
> -- 
> Une bévue
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