Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:16:29 +0900 From: Rob <stopspam@users.sourceforge.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare! Message-ID: <40C7C47D.7060902@users.sourceforge.net>
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Hi, I've been using FreeBSD for many years now; usually sticking closely to the Stable updates. I'm aware of some the do-it-yourself style with setting up my routers, nameservers, webservers, printer servers etc. All of this was reasonably well documented and meanwhile I learned something about computing itself. All good reasons to advertise FreeBSD as a 'fun' OS. Not so with this scanner stuff. I have an HP ScanJet 5200C; or better I claimed it in our lab from one of my Windows collegues. I've been struggling with sane, sane-find-scanner and its family commands in the back/front-ends. The problem is that I don't really know what I'm doing, so my story hereafter may sound a bit chaotic. All I get with sane-find-scanner is found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/uscanner0 Somewhere in the docs it says that I have to tell my kernel about the vendor and product.....in the kernel? Tried to find out how, couldn't. Then it talks about libusb. Mentions vaguely /dev/ugen* somewhere, without any useful details. Compiled ugen into the kernel, to no avail. I am totally lost here. And even worse: I'm about to bow deeply for my Windows collegue. What he did within 5 minutes with this scanner, I couldn't in the last 3 days. Is somebody willing to help me out here, before I give up completely? A first help would be: how about this vendor & product stuff. How and where do I unform the system? Which configuration file is needed for that? I have modified /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf to: # HP ScanJet 5200C usb 0x03f0 0x0401 (rest I left commented out) But that doesn't seem to do anything. Even putting rubbish in the hp.conf file doesn't seem to affect the result of sane-find-scanner. So I concluded that this hp.conf is the wrong configuration file for sane-find-scanner. I have no idea where to continue. Please help! Thanks so much! Rob.
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