This shouldn't require a specific driver, however by visiting
http://hpoj.sourceforge.net should lead you in the right direction -
using hpoj as a front-end to sane (http://www.sane-project.org) should
yield some positive results. If your friend has email, she should
subscribe to this list as well so she can learn how it works as well.
There is a lot of documentation out there for this, it's just a matter
of glueing the pieces together properly.
-Scott
* Ethan Glasser-Camp (gla...@rpi.edu) cobbled forth:
> Sorry if this gets posted twice -- I didn't quite subscribe before I
> posted last time, and I'm still not sure if I'm subscribed yet..
>
> Hey all,
>
> A friend of mine recently converted to Linux, and has a HP ScanJet 4600
> that she'd like to get working under Linux. Is anyone working on a
> driver for it? If not, how hard is it to write one? I'm a computer
> science undergraduate at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.
> I'm fluent in C but know next to nothing about hardware interfaces, USB,
> or programming for either. I understand that such a job would be a lot
> easier if the chipset were similar to a chipset that is already
> supported -- does anyone know if this is the case? (I assume not, since
> presumably if it were, someone would have noticed, and written a driver
> for it.)
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Ethan Glasser-Camp, self-styled Computersman
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