A question about USB support

[Fabian Cenedese]

>I have an HP PhotoSmart S20 photo scanner that connects to the USB port. 
>Since SANE doesn't support that scanner, I thought that wine could be an 
>option. I have its drivers for Windows 2000/XP and successfully installed 
>them with wine. The installation actually ran smootly and without 
>incidents. However, when I try to run the scanning application, it will 
>complain of not being able to communicate with the scanner (see the log below).

As far as I know wine HAS to use SANE as it can't access the hardware
directly. So if you don't have a SANE driver you're out of luck. But maybe
you find one somewhere on the net. And if I'm wrong please someone
correct me :)

>I know I'm being naive, but as far as I know, because these drivers are 
>for Win2k they are not VxD's (there are actually no .vxd files whatsoever) 
>and perhaps they can run in user mode. Is this correct? Is there a way 
>around this at all, like for instance letting the program access the USB 
>port directly?

>fixme:file:DEVICE_Open Unknown/unsupported VxD UsbScan0. Try setting 
>Windows version to 'nt40' or 'win31'.

Judging from this message your config WINVER is set to win95/8.

bye  Fabi