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hi all
i have a usb scanner and web cam and from what i have read in the forums i should see somthing in mnt like sda1.
i have rebooted and i get nothing
have tryed on 2 computors that i have with dsl on them
any1 know what i am doin wrong ?
thanks pete

The "sda1" thing is what you see for USB Mass Storage Devices.

In other words, a USB-based thumb drive, digital camera card reader, hard drive. zip drive, etc.

Scanners and web cams use a different interface for USB.

You can usually find out information about support for specific models of USB devices here:

http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/

and for scanners at:

http://sane-project.org/

It will probably require the installation of additional programs in order to work, like Video4Linux to give an example.

Hope this helps.

cbagger01 your my hero followed the links posted and got my webcam driver .
ran script for webcam and it installed proper and worked with test in script
made shortcut to desktop all works fine!! scanner site was down so i will go back and check for the scanner driver to
thanks again
pete

original here.