From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: scanner.ko was included in kernel-2.6.1-1.65 and it worked fairly well. In kernel-2.6.2-1.79 and kernel-2.6.2-1.81 scanner.ko was not included. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.2-1.81 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot with kernel 2.6.2-1.[79,81] 2.look in /lib/modules/<version>/kernel/drivers/usb/image/ 3. Actual Results: Not possible to scan photos :( Additional info: Should be an easy kernel configuration fix.
it has been dropped upstream on grounds of being crapy and xsane being better at the job (in userspace)