OK, so I've found it in the "External Backends" department on the web site. Seems kinda "not quite simple" to get this working with FreeBSD, since it refers to linux kernel patches...? :(
How come the uscanner manual says it is supported? Any ideas? Thanks, Palle --On onsdag, juli 28, 2004 03.48.27 +0200 Palle Girgensohn <gir...@pingpong.net> wrote: > Hi! > > Any ideas if/how to get this scanner working w/ FreeBSD? > > man uscanner(4) says it is supported, but there is noting about it on the > sane site. > > Kernel says: > uscanner0: PRIMAX Colorado USB 19200, rev 1.00/1.01, addr 2 > when connecting it. Correct. > > sane-find-scanner says: > > # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make > sure that > # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x0461, product=0x0360) at /dev/uscanner0 > # Your USB scanner was detected. It may or may not be supported by > # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. > > # Not checking for parallel port scanners. > > # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary > ports > # can't be detected by this program. > > and scanimage -L says > > No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, > check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the > sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation > which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). > > > Note: when running sane-find-scanner as non-root, it does not find > anything. I assume I need libusb for that? > > I use FreeBSD current, pretty recent. > > Thanks, > Palle
