[Novalug] Neat Receipt Scanner [?solved?]
Jon LaBadie
novalugml@jgcomp.com
Thu Jan 16 15:06:16 EST 2014
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 04:49:51PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> A Christmas gift I received was a Neat Receipts 'Mobile'
> scanner. I can get it working with the provided software
> on a Windows 7 laptop.
>
> Has anyone gotten this device working with either linux
> (Fedora 19) or a Virtual Box instance of Windows XP?
>
> Jon
Well this is a weird one. When I posted the above,
the virtual WinXP with Neat software seemed to want to
work. I.e. it sometimes saw the scanner but never saw
the paper I inserted. The little green light just blinked.
I googled for Neat and blinking light. One discussion I
encountered said that front USB ports sometimes behave
differently than rear USB ports. The responder suggested
the poster move his connection to the rear.
Not expecting any difference, I felt it couldn't hurt to
try. Sure enough, using a rear USB port rather than the
front panel USB caused it to start working in the virtual
WinXP.
Foolish me, I thought a USB port was a USB port :(
Jon
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