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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:33:44 +1000
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        Philipp Huber <uebs@gmx.at>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to get FreeBSD to work with my Scanner
Message-ID:  <00042614350601.00347@freebsd.freebsd.org>
References:  <20000423130624.A269@alanis.mini.net>

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Hello,

Ok I installed sane. Now I need to specify a device file like 
xsane -d somedevicefile .

Question

1) what would be in the device file?
Examples of the device might help.

Looking foward to your feedback.

dannyh

dannyh@idx.com.au

On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Philipp Huber wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:16:55PM +1000, Danny wrote:
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > -Hello over the last few  months I have finally to make FreeBSD my workstation
> > also.
> > -I have invested in Applixware for FreeBSD to do my job on FreeBSD, etc etc
> > The only final stepping stone is to get my scanner working on FreeBSD
> > 
> > -The scanner is plugged to the parallel port
> > -The scanner is Optic Pro 
> > 
> > Question
> > 
> > -I what entry I have to add /sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL file to get FreeBSD to work
> > with the scanner
> > 
> > -What do I do with MAKEDEV to get my scanner to work
> > 
> > 
> 
> hi !
> 
> scanners are usually supported by sane (/usr/ports/graphics/sane), but i don't know if it supports  your scanner. take a look.
> 
> Philipp
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