Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:16:03 -0800
From:      Micah <micahjon@ywave.com>
To:        Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Scanner in FBSD
Message-ID:  <43B1BD23.6070704@ywave.com>
In-Reply-To: <43B1B27A.5010408@bah.homeip.net>
References:  <43B1B27A.5010408@bah.homeip.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Bernt Hansson wrote:
> Hello?!
> 
> I have a scanner that is on the list at sane and it is connected to ppc0 
> which I belive is the first parallelport.
> 
> Anyone got a scanner attached to ppc0 to funktion? How?
> 
> 
> Scanner:
> 
> Primax 4800 Direct
> 
> Driver:
> 
> plustek_pp
> 
> OS:
> 
> FreeBSD 5.4
> 
> 

The last time I tried, plustek_pp required libieee1284 for parallel port 
access.  Libieee1284 is unsupported in FreeBSD (at least the 5 series 
FreeBSD).  Your best bet is to go out and get a supported USB or SCSI 
scanner or install your scanner on a Linux SANE server.

HTH,
Micah



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?43B1BD23.6070704>