Fedora Core 1 installer did not recognize the scanner. But, this seems to have partly been a USB problem changing to use the parallel prot did not allow the scanner to be recognized either.
The USB problem was supposedly a bug in the 2.4 kernel. When I installed Fedora Core 2 (kernel 2.6) the USB was correctly recognized and configured. And, both the ScanJet and my HP DeskJet which had both been switched back to USB from the parallel port before starting the install were recognized and correctly configured.
No further drivers needed with kernel 2.6 and both the ScanJet and DiskJet have been operating flawlessly since the move to the 2.4 kernel.
As far as I and my 2.6 kernel are concerned, Linux compatibility is 10. But, I know that there are still a lot of 2.4 and earlier kernels out there. These owners need to either avoid this scanner or upgrade to 2.6, at least with Fedora Core 1/Red Hat. Maybe other distros with 2.4 kernels would have better luck. But, not if the information I got off Google is correct that the USB problem was due to a 2.4 kernel bug.
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