Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 17:06:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Antal Novak <afn@weevil.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bsampley@best.com, jack@diamond.xtalwind.net, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Subject: Re: "Twain compliant" scanner driver??? (Logitech Scanman 256) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980503132329.23429A-100000@weevil.nac.net>
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Greetings folks. Before I ran FreeBSD, i used to run Linux, and I know for a while I played around with an old Logitech ScanMan 256 I got from someone (or maybe it was a ScanMan+/ScanMan32? *shrug*). Anyway, I know I had a driver for it that was written for Linux that worked great. It installed as a kernel patch and could be loaded as a module, and it even had a little program so you could scan stuff and it would show up onscreen as you scan it in. I believe the program was 'logiscan', available from http://physepra.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~becka/logiscan-0.0.5.tar.gz. If anyone would have the patience and time (of which I have neither) to port this to FreeBSD, please do so! Drop me a line if you are going to do this or if you know of someone else who will or already has. Thanks Antal Novak afn@weevil.net PS please Cc any replies to my email address-- I'm not currently subscribed to any of the FreeBSD mailing lists. > Attached is a message I sent to Logitech customer support and their > reply. Since Logitech is refusing to support their products for any OS > other than Micro$oft, does a generic driver exist for "Twain compliant" > scanners? Logitech claims this scanner is 100% Twain compliant, so I > thought maybe someone has a driver that might work. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks. > > > > Customer_Support@LOGITECH.COM wrote: > > > > Customer Support > > 02/01/97 11:25 AM > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2 -Beta Unix (based on BSD 4.4 lite from U.C. > > Berkeley). Is a Unix driver available for the scanner board scanman 256 > > hand held scanner? If so, which Unix is it for? Is the source code > > avaiable for modification for my Operating System? Is a release of > > FotoTouch available as well (and the sorce)? > > Hello Burton, > > Logitech does not support the use of its scanners in environments other > than DOS, Windows v3.1x or Windows 95 (depending on the model scanner > and the version of software being used). There are currently no plans > to support other platforms such as Unix, OS/2 or Windows NT. The > information necessary to create a driver for ScanMan 256 is > proprietary, and therefore unavailable, as is source code. > > Regards, > > Kevin > Logitech Customer Support > > Email: Customer_Support@logitech.com > Web Site: http://www.logitech.com > FTP Site: ftp://ftp.logitech.com/pub/TechSupport BBS: (510)795-0408 > FaxBack (U.S. & Canada): (800)245-0000 Sales: (800)231-7717 -- Burton Sampley Email: bsampley@best.com | home page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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