Hopefully the process of patching both SANE and the kernel have now been simplified

1. Patch your kernel with the supplied file to enable the E3 and E4 support
2. Install the updated scanner.o file into your modules directory and "modprobe scanner"
3. Download the 1.0.9 sane backend and unpack
4. Patch the source with the supplied diff file from the download directory
   
   
   gunzip -c e3_driver_0.6.diff.gz | patch -p1
   
   
5. Now build and install the sane release as normal
6. Once build try "scanimage -L" to see if it detects your scanner
7. If this fails type "export SANE_DEBUG_VIDEO=128" and retry the above
8. Also refer to the FAQ page for more tips on debugging
9. Note you will still need some support files as detailed in the 0.4 notes below

With this release I have remove the reliance on downloading the OneTouch 8600 driver. All of the required files are now in a single patch file for easy integration into the Sane 1.0.5 backend sources.

Make sure you pick up all of the support files. The standard 2.2.X and 2.4.x scanner.c and scanner.h files won't work with this driver. You need to build your kernel with the versions supplied on my downloads page.

You also need to get the Sane 1.0.5 source. You then need to apply the 0.4 release patch file to this source before running the configure command. For example type

cd sane-backends-1.0.5
gunzip -c e3_driver_0.4.diff.gz | patch -p1
./configure
make

This should give you a working viceo scanner driver as one of your modules

You will also need two support files from the Original windows driver. I have supplied this files in a support file along with a demo viceo.conf file required by this driver. You should place these in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/ or wherever your copy of sane expects to find its configuration files.
 

Make sure you pick up all of the support files. The standard 2.2.X scanner.c and scanner.h files won't work with this driver. You need to build your kernel with the versions supplied with the OneTouch driver.
For those of you using the 2.4.X kernel series a patch for the 2.4.4 kernel source is now available in the download section.

You also need to get the Sane source. I have now just updated the Makefile in the download to support Sane 1.04. Follow the instructions with the  OneTouch source and then apply the e3 driver source files over the files in the backend directory. You may need to change the prefix path in backend/Makefile to make sure that it matches the location you specified when you configured the sane source.

You will also need two support files from the Original windows driver. I have supplied this files in a support file along with a demo viceo.conf file required by this driver. You should place these in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/ or wherever your copy of sane expects to find its configuration files.
 

Contact Steven Ellis about the driver.