Hi, I recently found an Epson Perfection 3170 which I would like to use under 64-bit Ubuntu. After realising that there is no free or 64-bit driver for this scanner I started looking into writing one.
I got as far as snooping the USB communication from the Windows driver and I can now load the firmware and read the status of the buttons. Bear in mind that I know nothing about USB or scanners... But I'm not sure if I'm trying to reinvent the wheel here. What is exactly the relationship between the epkowa backend and libesint32? I have looked at the epkowa source code but I don't fully understand how it works. I suppose libesint32 loads the firmware, but I can do that myself. What else is it good for? What is the best approach to get this scanner to work on 64-bit machines? Implement the interpreter API? Write a completely new driver? Other options? I do realise that there might be both technical and legal issues involved. Lars
