Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:11:50 -0500 From: "David M. Heller" <dheller1@rochester.rr.com> To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why won't my HP Scanner work with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3A648EE6.9195A22B@rochester.rr.com> References: <3A636CF3.A6DA7F35@codysbooks.com> <20010116103703.A77671@itouchnz.itouch> <3A63732F.E963115E@codysbooks.com> <20010116111116.A78068@itouchnz.itouch> <3A638830.4B67CF86@codysbooks.com> <20010116144320.A84471@itouchnz.itouch> <3A63AC16.B4F7AAB3@codysbooks.com> <3A63C6D8.A3E5656E@rochester.rr.com> <3A64833E.C66085B6@codysbooks.com>
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Scott Reese wrote: > > I did as you suggested, and there is no such entry or device listed in dmesg. > > "David M. Heller" wrote: > > > Look at your dmesg output (dmesg | grep pass) there should be a line > > referring to your scsi scanner device such as pass1 pass2 etc. Now got > > to dir /usr/local/etc/sane.d there should be a file called hp.conf > > append the following to the end of the file : > > /dev/pass* sane should work now. I would recommend installing xsane or > > similiar program to access your device. > > > > Good Luck, > > > > Dave Scott There is only two things left I can think of short of hardware or scsi bios settings problem is the "device pass" is not configured in your kernel. Try recompiling your kernel with this device enabled. Possibly there is no such device listed in the /dev directory. In which case you will have to "MAKEDEV" it. I think ./MAKEDEV pass* will do it. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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