Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:11:16 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Scott Reese <sreese@codysbooks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why won't my HP Scanner work with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010116111116.A78068@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <3A63732F.E963115E@codysbooks.com>; from sreese@codysbooks.com on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:01:19PM -0800 References: <3A636CF3.A6DA7F35@codysbooks.com> <20010116103703.A77671@itouchnz.itouch> <3A63732F.E963115E@codysbooks.com>
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:01:19PM -0800, Scott Reese wrote:
> Yes, but the make will not complete successfully. I suspect it is because
> it's looking for the device and not finding it...This is where I got
> confused. How do I install the device itself into the kernel so that
> SANE will find it will it's running the make? Then, what do I do in the
> /dev directory? These are the questions that I cannot find answers to in
> any of the docs I've spent hours looking over. Of course, the make could be
> failing for other reasons as well...all I know is that when it gets to the
> xscanimage section, gmake returns an "Error 1" and aborts the process...it
> isn't obvious to me from the messages why it isn't completing the make. Do
> you have any suggestions? Again, thank you for your help.
Without more details about the error you're getting, the list can't
help you that much. Try doing the make again, and capture the output
to a file. Send the list the last useful lines of the output and
*then* we may be able to help.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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