Michael Roitzsch wrote: > Hi Jeff, > >> Looking through the archives I see a number of postings on developing >> a driver for the Canon Canoscan LiDE 500F. How far did you get? > > > Unfortunately, I have not even got started, since I have very little > time and some other projects in need of attention. Currently, I am > using the scanner under Mac OS X. > > But I am still interested in a working sane backend, so maybe we should > collaborate on this? > > Michael >
Michael and Pierre, Thank you for responding. Yes, collaborating is the only way to go. In my first couple of posts to the sane-dev-list - which you may not have seen - I expressed interest in working with others on such a project because I'm not a progammer. I can't really count a brief engagement with COBOL and an IBM 1401 main-frame in the 1960's and lots BASIC on several Z80-based machines in the 1980's :-) Anyway, I've had my canoscan LiDE 500F for just a week (the trusty Mustek finally croaked). It's plugged into a redundant dual-boot win98/RH9 box which is networked to another couple of Linux boxes I use every day. That's my present solution to my need for an operational scanner. I've used SnoopPro to log the traffic over the usb and got this enormous log :-) but where to from here? I can do 'lots of staring at usb logs' - there's plenty to stare at :-) What am I looking for? Jeff
