General Question

[Soren Hansen]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 03:54:31PM +0100, Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 02:45:42PM +0000, Martin Owens wrote:
> > unfortunately there is no way to tell two scanners apart that have the
> > same manufacturer and model id but require different firmware. this
> > then requires user input to select the correct model,
> How does the user tell the difference? 
 
To clarify: Of course I'm aware that the two scanners probably do not
look the same so the user knows which of his scanners are which :-), but
if they're both plugged in, how does he know which scanner corresponds
to which USB device on his system?

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