[sane-devel] Why cant the Snapscan drv load the firmware automatically ?

2001-07-26 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, > Is there a reason why this shall be done "by hand" ? The driver has little to no means to find out if the firmware has been downloaded before. To be on the safe side, it would have to be downloaded before every scan. This is clearly not desirable. However, there are other, more capable

[sane-devel] Improvement for USB scanners: IOCTL to query vendorID/productID in kernel

2001-07-26 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
--oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Finally... It took me quite some time to get this patch into the kernel. Starting with 2.4.8-pre1 the USB scanner driver in the Linux kernel has two IOCTs to query

[sane-devel] USB HP scanner problems

2001-07-26 Thread Peter Kirchgessner
Hi Bob, my experience with a HP ScanJet 6350 is that it can not be used with SCSI and USB at the same time. If the scanner finds a SCSI connection, it is not available on the USB. Try to unconnect the scanner from SCSI and try it with your USB box alone. --Peter Bob Sully wrote: > > Hey again -

[sane-devel] HP scanner problems

2001-07-26 Thread DStevenson
On Thursday 26 July 2001 07:55, tmarshall04 wrote: > i'm trying to use a ScanJet 3C but when i run scanimge -L...it doesn't > list it as an hp scanner . all i get is > > generic device found on sga > > and ./scanimage -d hp:/dev/sga produces a SCSI timeout after a few > minutes. i can run "find-sca

[sane-devel] Why cant the Snapscan drv load the firmware automatically ?

2001-07-26 Thread Matts Kivik
Fou USB acer scanprisa scanner that is. I mean, it is just a fork and a call to the acerfirm utility. Is there a reason why this shall be done "by hand" ? Will the scanner identify itself, so that the driver can choose the correct firmware to send ? If not, would'nt it be nice if the sane bac

[sane-devel] DevCom Black Widow 9636 HiRes (SCSI Scanner)

2001-07-26 Thread Chris Pinkham
>From cpinkham Wed Jul 25 15:52:43 2001 Subject: Re: [sane-devel] DevCom Black Widow 9636 HiRes (SCSI Scanner) To: sane-de...@mostang.com Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:52:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <001f01c11541$b00723c0$7a53dec2@simon> from "Simon Munton" at Jul 25, 2001 08:40:26 PM Reply-To: cpink.

[sane-devel] HP scanner problems

2001-07-26 Thread tmarshall04
i'm trying to use a ScanJet 3C but when i run scanimge -L...it doesn't list it as an hp scanner . all i get is generic device found on sga and ./scanimage -d hp:/dev/sga produces a SCSI timeout after a few minutes. i can run "find-scanner" and it give me the correct output (HP c2520a on sga) i kn