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Am 10.07.2014 21:23, schrieb Warren Block:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have got an unsupported USB image scanner (EPSON PERFECTION V300
>> PHOTO) attached to my FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE amd64 .
>> Though I would like to have some fun with it ... This is how far I got:
>>
>> # dmesg
>> [...]
>> ugen5.2: <EPSON> at usbus5
>>
>>
>> # usbconfig list
>> [...]
>> ugen5.2: <EPSON Scanner EPSON> at usbus5, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH
>> (480Mbps) pwr=ON (2mA)
>>
>> # sane-find-scanner -q
>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0131 [EPSON
>> Scanner]) at libusb:/dev/usb:/dev/ugen5.2
>>
>> but:
>>
>> # scanimage -L
>>
>> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
>> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
>> sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
>> which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
>>
>>
>> So I typed a line into /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson2.conf :
>>     usb 0x04b8 0x0131
>>
>> The result for scanimage -L remains the same as above. I wouldn't
>> exactly expect my scanner to work, but at least it could identify
>> itself. Perhaps there is a problem with file and device permissions?
> 
> Shown here as unsupported but using the epkowa driver:
> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html
That would be my next hope - but it seems the distfile
	iscan_2.11.0-1.tar.gz
seems to be corrupt (unknown or no compression at all) :-(

Greetings

Peter
> 
> Some scanners need a firmware download before they can do anything.  But
> the unsupported could just mean "does not work at all".
>