On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Brett Lymn wrote:

> According to Berndt Josef Wulf:
> >
> >Many thanks for your information. I didn't relize that the ss* devices
> >were indeed specific to the Mustek and HP scanners. 
> >
> 
> Neither did I until it bit me.  At least when you tried accessing the
> scanner didn't cause a kernel panic like it used to :-)
> 

so thats why I had to switch to uk* from ss* for my UMAX scanner!  Yes,
that seems like a better default, because when people go looking for
scanner software, they should find SANE in the packages collection and
then they're puzzled (like us) as to why it didn't work.

-Dan