From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jun 23 2:25: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99DBF14CE2; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 02:24:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA19837; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:55:02 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA09466; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:55:17 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:55:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nick Hibma Cc: FreeBSD Hackers , USB BSD list , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB scanners? Message-ID: <19990623185516.D87293@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990623182840.B87293@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Nick Hibma on Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 11:09:50AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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-multimedia" in the body of the message