First thing to do is compile/install a current sane-backends git snapshot, and then run sane-find-scanner -v -v and post your results here. Second step will likely be to get a trace of the windows driver in action making a small scan with this tool: http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/UsbSnoop/
allan On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Catalin David <catalindavid2003 at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > My name is Catalin David and I am a student (hopefully not for long) > and have just joined this mailing list. The reason why I joined this > mailing list is that I want to develop a driver for the above > mentioned model of scanner. > > I live in a residential college and the owners decided it was time to > replace the hardware equipment provided (scanner and printers) and > bought this model. As I later found out, there are no drivers for > Linux and, after asking the producer for some more details (and the > programmer's documentation), I got a very styled GTFO here saying they > only support Win and Mac OS and that they can't help me. > > So, following the ideas on the website, I tried to find the chipset > manual and the programmer's information, but failed. I will try to > look more into what I can do on my side to find out more about the > scanner, but would appreciate some tips, info, steps to follow. > > Regards, > > Catalin David > > -- > ****************************** > Catalin David > B.Sc. Computer Science 2010 > Jacobs University Bremen > > Phone: +49-(0)1577-49-38-667 > > College Ring 4, #343 > Krupp College B-313 > Bremen, 28759 > Germany > ****************************** > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"