>> Which is two sane-backend releases behind. Changes are you just need a >> newer version of the libsane package. IIRC, the version from Jessie >> installs without any problems on Wheezy. > First of all: thank you for your response. > > Second: there are no backports for either libsane or > sane-backends. > > Third: it is difficult for me to believe that there is > no way for a variant of a very well-known firm, Canon, > to have its particular modus operandi identified.
It has been identified, and sane-backends has been updated to support it. > I would hope that the information given by sane-find-scanner: > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon Inc], product=0x2774 > [MF4700 Series]) at libusb:001:004 > > would be sufficient to add the support for this particular > Canon all-in-one to my present libsane. Actually, no- it takes far more than just USB identifiers to enable support. It takes USB traces under the windows driver, and lots of tedious reverse engineering and testing by a large number of volunteers. Fortunately, this has all been done for you. All you have to do is upgrade. allan -- "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand" -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
