HP scanjet 4300c

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:09:50 +1100, David Hallam @ Home
<zzdhalla at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> Any pointers how to set up a HP scanjet 4300c for Ubuntu.
> Works wonderfully under Mandrake but..
> I can't get it to work under  Ubuntu

here are some hints taken from an old e-mail on this list that may or
may not be applicable in your case:

> > And, unfortunately, scanimage --list-devices returns that there
> > are no devices present, and xsane can't find devices!
>
> Can you please verify that you are in the 'scanner' group? I. e. does
> the command 'id' contains 'scanner'?
>
>  if not, you need to add your user to it with
>
> sudo adduser <yourlogin> scanner