http://ubuntuforums.org – I have just got around to installing my scanner and followed this thread to the letter and nothing is working. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=594951 here is what I get when I do sane-find-scanner Code: me@My-desktop:~$ sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x0118) at libusb:001:004 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as # necessary. then if I try scanimage -L Code: me@My-desktop:~$ scanimage -L WARNING: Unhandled message: interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable, path=/, member=Introspect No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). me@My-desktop:~$ No working scanner yet. been reading every thread I can find but am just getting confused now. (Hardware)