[wellylug] Canon Scanner on Slackware 10.1, invalid group problem

John Fouhy john at fouhy.net
Mon Jul 3 15:48:26 NZST 2006


On 04/07/06, Benjamin Cooney <benjamin.cooney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a USB Canon Scanner I would like to get working. I plugged in the
> cables and booted my computer. The hardware decetion, hotplug rc script seems
> to have found it but it echos the error:
>
>  chown root:scanner invalid group
>
> can anyone help me get this setup?

Hi Ben,

I don't know much about scanners myself, but there's an article here
from January 2006:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT4619531751.html  that suggests
it may not be easy (they cite Canon as an example of a company with
poor-to-nonexistent linux support :-( ).

A good course of action might be to use google to search for your
specific model +linux to see if you can find anyone else with your
problem.

-- 
John.




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