Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:57:59 -0500 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP ScanJet 4100c? Message-ID: <200512171258.23622.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051217082131.GA78299@thought.org> References: <20051217010221.GA60469@thought.org> <200512170239.21203.mistry.7@osu.edu> <20051217082131.GA78299@thought.org>
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--nextPart1189529.VO3nH7yC7R Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 17 December 2005 03:21 am, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 02:39:07AM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > > On Friday 16 December 2005 11:31 pm, you wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:19:21PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > > > > On Friday 16 December 2005 08:02 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > Do I have to build it into the kernel or what? IOW, what's > > > the deal with USB stuff? I've had enough headbanging with ye > > > olden COM[1234] ports. But it's time to get my fingers wet. > > > > Depending on what version of FreeBSD you're running you might > > want to build usb into the kernel. If you just run "kldload > > uscanner" it should automatically load the usb kernel module, if > > it's not already in the default kernel, which I think it may be.=20 > > The usb stuff should work fine as long as you don't have some > > funky chipset. 6.0-RELEASE should have pretty good support for > > usb. > > I just tried a "lkdload uscanner" on my ThinkPad running 5.4 > and got This just means that it is already built into the kernel. Just plug=20 in the scanner and you should see uscanner0: some stuff appear on the=20 console. > > kldload: can't load uscanner: File exists > > In the USB section in /boot/loader.conf, everything was > set to NO. Which of these options should I switch to YES. > ---This goes for my other FBSD servers too. I've never > used anything usb so I'll check my KERNEL config files too. > > All my hardware is fairly standard. Intel, HP, whatever > ThinkPad has, and whatever's on the USB 2.0 m'board on my > just-shipped AMD system. I stick to the Keep It Simple Sir > philosophy, so if I need to buy a USB board I well. Meanwhile, > if you have any feedback about the /boot/loader.conf and > KERNEL config files, I'd like to hear them. > > thanks! > > gary =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart1189529.VO3nH7yC7R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDpFG/xqA5ziudZT0RAix6AKDFjDGPn4j/GlK0sUwiFxUkBvWK3wCfV9+M UkMPwr/ElTV0s8s4ZBMz928= =fdfL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1189529.VO3nH7yC7R--
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