How to get Epson 3490 Scanner working under Hardy H ?

[jorgebit]

I have an Epson 3490 scanner that works fine. I have posted below my snapscan.conf file. The key to getting this scanner to work was the line near the top that begins with the word, firmware. You have to have the firmware file on your hard drive where indicated by the firmware line. You can get the firmware file from the Windows install of the Epson software or from the Epson scanner install cd.

#------------------------------ General -----------------------------------

# Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if
# firmware upload is needed by the scanner
firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/esfw52.bin

# If not automatically found you may manually specify a device name.

# For USB scanners also specify bus=usb, e.g.
# /dev/usb/scanner0 bus=usb

# For SCSI scanners specify the generic device, e.g. /dev/sg0 on Linux.
# /dev/sg0

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# No changes should be necessary below this line
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------

#-------------------------- SCSI scanners ----------------------------------
# These SCSI devices will be probed automatically
scsi AGFA * Scanner
scsi COLOR * Scanner
scsi Color * Scanner
scsi ACERPERI * Scanner

#--------------------------- USB scanners -----------------------------------
# These USB devices will be probed automatically
# (This will currently work only on Linux)

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 310U
usb 0x04a5 0x1a20
usb 0x04a5 0x1a26

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 320U
usb 0x04a5 0x2022

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 620U / 620UT
usb 0x04a5 0x1a2a
usb 0x04a5 0x2040

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 640U
usb 0x04a5 0x2060

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 640BU
usb 0x04a5 0x207e

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 640BT
usb 0x04a5 0x20be

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 1240U
usb 0x04a5 0x20c0

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 3300 / 4300
usb 0x04a5 0x20b0

# Benq/Acer/Vuego 4300
usb 0x04a5 0x20de

# Benq 5000E / 5000U
usb 0x04a5 0x20f8

# Benq 5000
usb 0x04a5 0x20fc

# Benq/Acer 5300
usb 0x04a5 0x20fe

# Benq 5250C
usb 0x04a5 0x2137

# Agfa 1236U
usb 0x06bd 0x0002

# Agfa 1212U
usb 0x06bd 0x0001
usb 0x06bd 0x2061

# Agfa Snapscan e10
usb 0x06bd 0x2093

# Agfa Snapscan e20
usb 0x06bd 0x2091

# Agfa Snapscan e25
usb 0x06bd 0x2095

# Agfa Snapscan e26
usb 0x06bd 0x2097

# Agfa Snapscan e40
usb 0x06bd 0x208d

# Agfa Snapscan e42
usb 0x06bd 0x20ff

# Agfa Snapscan e50
usb 0x06bd 0x208f

# Agfa Snapscan e52
usb 0x06bd 0x20fd

# Epson Perfection 660
usb 0x04b8 0x0114

# Epson Perfection 1670
usb 0x04b8 0x011f

# Epson Perfection 2480
usb 0x04b8 0x0121

# Epson Perfection 3490
usb 0x04b8 0x0122

# Epson Stylus CX-1500
usb 0x04b8 0x080c

You may also want to review the following thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=108256

Thank you . It works fine for me in Ubuntu 11.10 x64.
I Just added the firmware statement and copied esfw52.bin to the /usr/share/sane/snapscan directory and it worked.

[chingchong]

None of the solutions worked for me, so I simply commented out the "firmware" line in /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf

#------------------------------ General -----------------------------------

# Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if
# firmware upload is needed by the scanner
#firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/Esfw52.bin

# If not automatically found you may manually specify a device name.

# For USB scanners also specify bus=usb, e.g.
# /dev/usb/scanner0 bus=usb

# For SCSI scanners specify the generic device, e.g. /dev/sg0 on Linux.
# /dev/sg0

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# No changes should be necessary below this line
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------

After that there were no errors. Using Ubuntu 12.04 Epson 3490.