I just bought a new HP ScanJet 3500c scanner and a Logitec QuickCam Messenger webcam, and niether work. It auto-detected the scanner and left a shortcut to Kooka on my desktop, but it doesn't scan. How do find support for my scanner, and what prog do I use for my webcam?

Try this link:

http://www.exploits.org/v4l/

?? I have no clue what most of that is. Is there somewhere I can get rpms for progs that will run either device?

Is the usb module loaded?

here is the output for my machine which has a scanner and other usb devides

[*****@somewhere.com]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
agpgart 47552 3 (autoclean)
nvidia 1767936 11 (autoclean)
autofs 13396 0 (autoclean) (unused)
tulip 44352 1
sg 37036 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17944 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12176 0
scsi_mod 109496 3 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 35292 0
cdrom 33920 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ohci1394 20680 0 (unused) <========= firewire
ieee1394 51532 0 [ohci1394] <======== firewire
scanner 11228 0 (unused)
keybdev 2912 0 (unused)
mousedev 5560 1
hid 21892 0 (unused)
input 6112 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-ohci 21896 0 (unused) <=========== usb module
usbcore 81440 1 [scanner hid usb-ohci] <=== usb module
ext3 72608 2
jbd 55568 2 [ext3]

The system knows a scanner is there, it put a shortcut to Kooka on my desktop, it just doesn't work. Maybe I just don't know how to use kooka, but after reading the documentation, i think I'm doing it right, it just doesn't support my scanner. (HP ScanJet 3570c)