Support for Epson EP-802A scanner

[Wouter Thielen]

I have an Epson EP-802A printer/copier/scanner. I googled on how to find out if my scanner works with the epkowa driver, and found out that I had to do the following things:

- add some HAL information
- add some udev rules
- added a usb <vendor> <model> in my /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf

I am not sure if I needed the HAL information as well, but just for completeness' sake I added it.

Here is the lsusb line for my scanner:

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04b8:0852 Seiko Epson Corp.

As you can see, vendor ID 04b8 and model ID 0852.

I had to add the "scanner" group myself - it didn't seem to be a standard group in Ubuntu - and added myself as a member of the group. I checked the permissions of the scanner's device file in /dev/bus/usb and it was set correctly after the udev rules were in place, and a reboot. I opened xsane, and it recognized it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libsane-extras 1.0.19.11ubuntu2 [modified: lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane-extras.rules]
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: sane-backends-extras
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-18-generic i686

[Wouter Thielen (wouter.thielen)]

Not really a bug, just an addition to the "known devices" list

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Wouter Thielen, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases your release is EOL.

If you have an issue in a supported release (ex. 16.04) please file a new report, and feel free to subscribe me to it.