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Using Bionic Pup 64 8 0
xsane correctly identifies an old Agfa Snapscan e20 flatbed scanner but then fails to connect to it with the following error -
snapscan:libusb:005:002:error during device I/O

I have had this scanner working on an older Puppy version on a now scapped HP2133 notebook which required firmware snapscan e20.bin but trying this just gives the same error message as above.

Any advice welcome.

Curious how you are going to solve this. I'm about to do a similar setup since I gave my brother printer/scanner to my daughter. I still use scanner from time to time and I need to look for my flatbed scanner. I have an old firmware file backed up and thinking about searching for a newer version. Are you using an old version or newer firmware?

As far as I know the snapscane20.bin is the correct firmware.

See -

https://snapscan.sourceforge.net/

xsane clearly recognises the scanner and the scanner motor and light activates as connection is attempted.

Finally able to give some time setting up my scanner and very happy to say, after sitting for so many years in the attic, my flatbed scanner still works.

All I had to do was edit /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf and copy my backed up firmware to the folder specified below. Worked the first try.

# Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if
# firmware upload is needed by the scanner
firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/u96v121.bin

When I ran "xsane image scanner", a window opened to let me choose what type of scanner I'm using (USB, Parallel or SCSI) - see Screenshot(22).jpg. I clicked USB then another window open letting me chose my scanner which in this case is the Acer - FlatbedScanner13 (see Screenshot(23).jpg)

I'm trying it on EasyOS but I'm sure it will work on other Puppy Linux

Hope you were able to get yours going.