It’s tragic is what it is Keith- he was only 59! His illness sounds scary ( I hope it wasn’t that new virus from abroad–). Mark helped me tons over the years with using Linux.
I’ll try that link tomorrow afternoon as I’m on my Chromebook and not got the netbook set up and going into bed soon.
Graeme had sent me a link to some firmware but I was too late getting to save it ( it had a time constraint on it), so I hope he’ll be able to resend it to me.
Yes, Mint is similar. I was using that distro on a Dell netbook for a few years ( but the netbook is no longer updateable so I gave it to my mate Dave for typing up documents on).
Hi Melissa - I have the same generic scanner as graeme (mine is branded Artec Ultima 2000) and both he and Mark helped me get mine running a few years ago. Try this out and see if it works.
Follow the instructions as read except where it says “find the 3 lines that read…”
Instead of “Artec Ultimate 2000”, look for your scanner name in the list and uncomment those two lines below it as instructed.
Follow the rest of the instructions and test your scanner.
If it doesn’t work, go back to the beginning of post #9 and follow the instructions as written - ie: uncomment the “Artec Ultimate 2000” lines instead.
Try your scanner again.
It looks like this scanner is a basic one that was branded many ways. Hopefully these instructions will be good for all of them in the list as the software seems to be identical for all.
Thank you I’ll def try this tomorrow afternoon. My computer mouse has dies and I’m not very good with panels so if I can’t do it I’ll do it Saturday after I get paid when I get a new mouse. I have to takea pet to the vets Friday and I’ll be too upset to get on to this as she needs euthanesia.
The file you need might be PS1fw.usb and you can find a (lower case) version at SANE GT68xx Backend Homepage.
Scroll down until you find: “Packard Bell Diamond 1200 CIS 6801 0x05d8 0x4002 ps1fw.usb Works, probably a Mustek BearPaw 1200 CU clone.”.
Click on the blue filename to download. It will probably go to your Downloads directory.
Wherever it is, move it by:
All being well you should see something like: device `gt68xx:libusb:004:002’ is a Mustek Bearpaw 1200 CU Plus flatbed scanner
Please note that your computer is expecting PS1fw.usb (capitals) and we are trying a lowercase source - but I bet it’s the same file.
Let us know how you get on.
Keith
I got all this from:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/how-to-mustek-1200-ub-plus-does-work-with-linux-178927/
https://sermoa.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/packard-bell-mustek-bearpaw-scanner-on-ubuntumint/
http://meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/
Thanks Keith, I tried that. The file is in my downloads but when I did the first sudo command in the terminal I got a message saying it cannot find it.
Check carefully the file name in your Downloads directory - is it all lower case or does it have any capitals? Let me know.
Try copying the file name listed in Downloads (in the terminal: highlight the name then Ctrl+Shift+c) and paste that into the sudo command ( Ctrl+Shift+v) instead of typing exactly what I’ve written in the command. Does that make sense?
I just don’t get why it won’t work. I’ve got simple scan on this netbook, light on scanner is on when plugged into it, and it worked on the old Mint netbook I gave to my mate Dave.