scanner and webcam not recognise by debian

[rapattack]

Hi I went to add the webcam I have in the camera section but it is not in the list of supported devices. Is there a way around that?
Then there is the scanner. When I went into the scan software Kooka and in the setting menu I chose "select scan device" but nothing happened.
The webcam is a Logitech Quickcam and the scanner is a Canoscan LIDE 20. Both are USB devices.

[rapattack]

OK well here is a screenshot of the terminal after typing "dmsg | tail" . I have attached a Tablet and am having trouble getting that happening too. The camera is not attached in the first screenshot but in the 2nd it is but I still could not get past the error.

[Dapper Dan]

On the webcam, this page should be of service. On the scanner, a Google reveals that it should work very well for you with sane. Is sane-devel installed?
xsane might work well for you too:

apt-get install sane-devel xsane xsane-common

Then, try kooka, or xsane as regular user. Might be able to glean further info about your scanner here.

[rapattack]

Hi I did do a lot of googling but you may be closer to a solution . i have kooka and not sane so will install that now. kooka doesn't see the device. will get back onto my main machine and do all of that now. thanks...

OK now I installed xsane from the command line. That other line did work so i typed "apt-get install xsane". Hope that is right. I opened /ran xsane and it still didn't see the scanner. Funner thing is when I attached it to the notebook it works with exactly the same program but Ubuntu is the OS.

OK now to the camera. That pages looks like something I started last night so will continue. PHEW a lot of work!

[rapattack]

Geez I am getting nowhere. It is too advanced for me. I am just not following anything. There are things they are leaving out probably thinking that the reader knows more than what they do. Needs to be more beginner. Can anyone help I am lost!

[Dapper Dan]

I'll do what I can, but please know I don't use Debian proper very often. Did you install those packages? If you were not able to, let me know. I need to know where you are and how far you got.

[rapattack]

I really don't know what I did now. I am too confused as I have too many issues with Debian. I can't get quite a few things working....more than I have mentioned. The trouble with that page is that they have too much info there for a beginner. Nice if you can read that much but I have short term memory loss. No really. Not joking. So what specifically did I have to install and I know I installed something but something else didn't install or maybe it did but maybe I got an odd message I struggled to move on but got stuck.

[Dapper Dan]

Open a terminal and become super user...

su

it will ask for root's password. Ener it and press enter. Now do

apt-get update

EDIT: Okay, I missed the post where you said you got xsane installed. The big thing is though having sane installed. I did some more on the packeges you will need so now do:

apt-get install sane sane-utils xsane xsane-common libsane libsane-dev

If the packages did get installed, open a terminal and as regular user run:

xsane

The straight Debian guys are gonna pitch a fit for me saying this, but Ron, Debian is not an easy distro for a new user. It might not be a bad idea to consider going with an easier distro like Ubuntu which is Debian based. Ubuntu has really good hardware detection and finds and configures printers and scanners like nobody's business.

[rapattack]

Um Xsane is installed!

Yeah I agree in a way about Ubuntu but I did have quite a few problems with the first two installs of Ubuntu on two different machines. I wasn't able to fix and and gave up for ages then I installed Ubuntu again on my notebook a few weeks ago as I had time to really explore it offling. I realised there was a very different easier way to go about getting packages and that was the add/remove section but trying to get it on dialup was painful . I got a pcmcia card and gnome-ppp installed and wow. I also got a wifi card from ebay and that was hard at first but the challenge has been rewarding to have a machine with a fast connection. Now that I have spent so much time though on Ubuntu I feel I can move on. There is very little in Ubuntu too that has to be done via the command line but I learnt that after discovering the add/remove section. Anyway that is just my review after experimenting since January. I have experimented with a few distros.

[Dapper Dan]

Well okay... I had the mistaken idea from your first posts that you were a poor frustrated new user who was discouraged and ready to quit. If it is the command line you wish to learn and you want to overall have a better understanding of Linux, then you really don't need my help. Stick with Debian and enjoy the learning experience... Good luck.