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Date:      Wed, 9 Jun 2004 21:51:23 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Rob <stopspam@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!
Message-ID:  <20040609214010.R36128@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <40C7D50F.9060702@users.sourceforge.net>
References:  <40C7C47D.7060902@users.sourceforge.net> <20040609202124.L35804@wonkity.com> <20040609204934.T35931@wonkity.com> <40C7D50F.9060702@users.sourceforge.net>

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On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote:

> This is exactly the point where I get confused.
>
> # cat /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf | grep -v "^#"
> usb 0x03f0 0x0401
> /dev/uscanner0
> #  sane-find-scanner -v
> [...]
> checking /dev/uscanner0... open ok, but vendor and product could NOT be 
> identified
> found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/uscanner0
> [...]

Hmm.  What does 'scanimage -L' say?

The only other thing I can think of trying would be to check that 
'usbdevs -v' shows matching USB vendor and product codes.  HP may have 
revised them.

> I get the impression that hp.conf is not read at all, because I created an
> hp.conf with nonsense contents, but sane-find-scanner was not bothered.

sane-find-scanner may not care, but the rest of SANE should.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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