I've been working on getting usb scanners to work with a couple of
slackware 10 systems running 2.6.7. The main problem is that there does
not seem to be any device created for the scanner (ex. /dev/scanner).


dmesg when connecting the scanner:
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using address 3

sane-find-scanner detects it properly:
found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0601 [HP ScanJet 6300C]) at
libusb:003:003

The scanner vendor/product id values are found in
/etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap


There does not appear to be any usb scanner device file.

The command
find /dev -name "*scan*"
does not find anything.

/etc/sane.d/hp.conf does contain the appropriate entry for the scanner.

Looking at /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions it looks like
/dev/scanner and /dev/usb/scanner? files should be created but are not
there for some reason when the scanner is connected.

What am I missing?

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