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

[andrej at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting Benjamin Cooney <benjamin.cooney at gmail.com>:


> 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
That's an odd error to give;  Slackware by default does have the 
scanner group (since it's being shipped with sane & xsane).
Did you manually remove the group?

> can anyone help me get this setup?
Not without more input :)


> Cheers,
> Ben.
Cheers,
Andrej