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diff --git a/tools/hotplug/README b/tools/hotplug/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1170639 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/hotplug/README @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +README for the USB hotplug scripts for sane-backends : +------------------------------------------------------ + +If you intend to use a USB scanner with libusb and older versions of Linux, you +should install the hotplug package, and then take the following steps. For +current Linux kernels, "udev" is state of the art, see the "udev" directory +instead. + + o Copy the libsane.usermap and libusbscanner files from this directory to + /etc/hotplug/usb/ + o If you use Linux 2.6.3 or older, add scanner to /etc/hotplug/blacklist so + that the scanner.o kernel driver won't be loaded by hotplug. With later + kernel versions there is no scanner module and therefore it's not necessary + to use the blacklist. + o Check if /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap already knows about your scanner. + If your scanner is not in this list,add a line similar to the other ones + using the vendor ID and the product ID of your scanner. Please contact the + sane-devel mailing list in this case so the ids of your scanner can be added. + o Make sure that the "scanner" group exists on your system and that every user + who should be allowed to acces the scanner is a member of that group. + Alternatively, you can enable access for every user of your system in + libusbscanner. + +The vendor ID and product ID of your scanner can be obtained by running +sane-find-scanner (you might need to run it as root). + +Please note that the scanner.o (or scanner.ko in Linux 2.6) kernel module is +now deprecated and marked as obsolete in Linux 2.6. It is recommended to switch +to libusb. + +If the hotplug support doesn't work for you once you have taken the steps +described above, check that your kernel has been built with hotplug support. +Otherwise, you'll need to rebuild your kernel. + + -- Julien BLACHE <jb@jblache.org>, Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:01:02 +0000 |