I have SuSE 10 and a Visioneer One Touch 7600 scanner does any one know of drivers for this unit? Can drivers be written for this scanner? Even just simple ones?

Hi,

Your scanner is not supported by the backend program SANE. Without this your scanner cant comunicate with Linux.

Check out the SANE site here:
http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html

regards,

This driver says it works on that scanner, but it only works with 2.4 kernel.

The driver linked by spooon is several years out of date, and not Sane compatible, which means it's all but useless for a current system. Give it a try if you're desperate, but don't hold out too many expectations for it.

I also suffered an huge amount of frustration trying to get a Visioneer One Touch scanner working on Linux. It was a different model (4400), but also completely unsupported. I did a lot of research, and found a lot of false hope (including pages that claimed it was compatible with drivers for various other scanners), but in the end I discovered that the reason there wasn't a driver for it was because the scanner itself was a bit of a hardware hack, and was practically unsupportable. I can't tell you whether your model is the same, but you have to ask yourself why there isn't a driver for it.

In the end, I sold my 4400 scanner, and bought a new one that is supported. Okay, so it cost me a bit of money, but I was wasting so much time trying to get the old one working, and it just wasn't worth it.