paul beard wrote:
>
> well, I seem to be stuck. So far, I've been able to verify that
> the scanner hardware and cabling work in MacOS but not in NetBSD
> with SANE. I haven't heard anything resembling a success story
> with SANE and Apple/PowerPC hardware, so if there are any, I'd be
> interested to see them.
>
> Since the kernel and scsictl can both see the scanner but SANE
> can't, what's missing? Is the kernel somehow not cooperating with
> SANE? and if not, how does scsictl get around that problem? I have
> already posted ktruss output of scsictl and SANE probing the
> device, but if anyone would like to see it again or can suggest
> other methods, please let me know.
>
> I can capture ktruss output as needed or provide any other
> debugging assistance/testing. I'd like not to have to buy a SCSI
> card for one of my Intel boxes just to resolve this issue: sounds
> like a Windows solution to me.
>
> I don't even know what this error means:
>
> "scanimage: open of device umax:/dev/uk0 failed: Invalid
> argument\n"
After all, this is a new error message isn't it ;) Did you check the
permission settings? Can you run
export SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=255
scanimage umax:/dev/uk0
and send me the debug output?
Abel
