Recently got a Canon Canoscan 8800F after looking it up on the SANE site and said it was completely supported for Linux.

I have downloaded the pixma drivers and have compiled the command line program, but it can't find the scanner.

lsusb returns a Canon scanner
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04a9:1901 Canon, Inc.

and sane-find-scanner returns:
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x1901 [CanoScan]) at libusb:001:005

but scanimage -L (under my user login or sudo) returns only the webcam. No other scanner found.

My system is running Linux Mint 7, ia64 kernel 2.6.28-11-generic

Any help would be great.

Mark

see:- http://www.hamrick.com/

According to the Vuescan list of supported scanners, the 8800F is NOT supported under Linux.

I am running Fedora 13 and have a Canon 8800F hooked up and running.
$ scanimage -L
device `pixma:04A91901' is a CANON Canoscan 8800F multi-function peripheral
$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04a9:1901 Canon, Inc. CanoScan 8800F

"I have downloaded the pixma drivers and have compiled the command line program, but it can't find the scanner."

I don't remember where I got the drivers, but it was probably from the CD that came with the scanner, or from the Canon site. I did not have to compile anything. I run the scanner from xsane v.997 and it works fine.

Good luck -- Pete

The Canon site doesn't have drivers for Linux. The disk that came with the scanner has software only for various versions of Windows and Mac.

Perhaps your distro makes a difference. Unless you can remember what drivers and how you got them.

Mark

I downloaded the Fedora packages
sane-backends-1.0.21-2.fc13 (x86_64)
sane-backends-libs-1.0.21-2.fc13 (x86_64)

There must be a generic driver in there. It is not as user-friendly as the driver for my Mac, but it does the same things.

Pete

I'm not using fedora. I will check to see if it exists for ubuntu or linux mint.

buy a new / different scanner .I have a cannon 8000f that i have NEVER been able to get to work on Linux for the last 5 years

i Keep a copy of xp installed JUST FOR THAT SCANNER ( and one or two xp only programs)

yes fedora "sees it" but there is NO DRIVER FOR IT !!!

no there is not ,Cannon is VERY Microsoft ONLY there is no driver .

I've sent it back and purchase an Epson Perfection V300 Photo. That has Linux drivers I can and have downloaded. And it works under windows. The other had a problem under windows, it scanned but needed calibration but didn't have a manual calibration method, do Canon tech support said it was broken, and they don't support Linux in any way, shape, manner, or form.

I will not buy another Canon product as long as they take that attitude.

Mark