Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:55:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, USB BSD list <usb-bsd@egroups.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB scanners? Message-ID: <19990623185516.D87293@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990623110651.25186w-100000@elect8>; from Nick Hibma on Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 11:09:50AM %2B0200 References: <19990623182840.B87293@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990623110651.25186w-100000@elect8>
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On Wednesday, 23 June 1999 at 11:09:50 +0200, Nick Hibma wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Does anybody have a USB scanner running under FreeBSD, or know how to >> get one running? I'm prepared to do some work, but I'd like to know I >> had some chance of success. > > No one I know off. And I don't know of a scanner that we could easily > support. It might be that there are scanners that work through the Mass > Storage class specification (converted SCSI scanners). *sigh* that's what I was afraid you'd say. > If you have a scanner run the usb_dump utility available from > > http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/usb/usb_dump.c > > and send me the output, so we can figure out what interfaces and classes > it supports. No, I don't have one yet. I was thinking of buying a scanner, and it seemed to be a logical thing to buy a USB scanner and write a driver for FreeBSD. I suppose I could contact all the scanner manufacturers and ask for programming docco. Does anybody have any leads? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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