Patience is not one of my virtues, so needing a scanner yesterday meant that I'd be willing to try anything. I even tried the Scanport on Windose and, yeah, it sort of worked, but not very well. I went ahead and traded up to the HP thinking that at least I might have a little better chance of getting something to work. Yes, Gerhard's right, I should have asked before. Tell you guys the truth, it looks like the only supported scanners are the expensive ones. Why is that?
I do have a work-around solution - for now. I have an old notebook that I installed Win98 on and installed the scanner software and VNC. I can now use the scanner from my Linux system (it works okay, so don't laugh ;-)). I can't really say that I'm a Microsoft free environment anymore, although I am calling the win98 machine a 'scanner controller', it's still a Microsoft O/S running Microsoft applications, so I still need your help. If there's anything I can help with to get this resolved, please let me know. Thanks! On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 08:09, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 02:57:41PM +0100, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote: > > HELP!!!!!!!!!! - NOT AGAIN!!!!!! > > :-) > > > Those d**n manufactures, by using similar names they make us believe > > that same or similar hardware is inside those cheap scanners... > > The HP2300C does not contain a LM983x chip, see my mail on this list > > "HP2300C chipset": > > Maybe we should add an unsupported.desc file that lists all the > scanners that are unsupported and point to websites containing > information about them. So we could add the entries from PROJECTS that > don't provide backends yet. > > At least that would make sure we have all the information in one place. > However, it will need quite some attention to update the file when the > scanners get actually supported. > > > Sparrow Main Board V1.2 12-00080-01C with two Chips: > > > > 26-00122-03A <------- ASIC ??? > > 0213E2FC1 > > No imprint of the manufacturer? > > Bye, > Henning > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > sane-de...@www.mostang.com > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel -- Ira Childress <ichildr...@mn.rr.com>
