You can configure a scanner at any time using YaST. The sane-backends package contains hardware drivers and other essentials needed to use a scanner.
Connect your scanner to your computer and turn on the scanner.
Start YaST and select sane-backends package is available and will try to detect your scanner model automatically.
. YaST will check if theDepending on the results, proceed as follows:
If you scanner is detected properly, select the entry and click
.If your scanner cannot be automatically detected, try
first. If this does not work, click to open the manual configuration dialog and select the appropriate model and driver. Refer to the text for detailed information.Click
twice.Test the scanner by clicking
.Click
to close this module.For details and background information about scanner configuration have a look at our support database article at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Scanner_Setup_from_SUSE_Linux_10.0.