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

[Benjamin Cooney]

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:48, John Fouhy wrote:
> 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.

Hi John. 

Thanks for that. It is an interesting article. Although the link at the end no 
longer seems to exist :( a shame because I would have liked to see the 
"Windows shining scanner moment."

I have managed to find the images I was wanting hidden on one of my old ntfs 
disks so I can now afford the time to just amble my way thru the problem and 
maybe not buy anymore canon stuff in the future. I think I'v been able to 
gain some understanding of the way scanners work on linux after reading the 
article. 

Thanks heaps,
Ben.