Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:05:13 -0700 From: Michael Collette <metrol@metrol.net> To: FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Hp Scanjet 6300C Message-ID: <200209040805.13200.metrol@metrol.net>
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Well, I got things sortta got the scanner talking. It never does manage to identify the proper device with sane-find-scanner. Also, I seem to be running into another nasty. As to how I got it working, I found a reference on the sane web site that suggested altering the /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf file to read... scsi HP /dev/scanner /dev/uscanner0 option connect-device Also it seems to work by saying "usb HP" instead of the "scsi HP" line. XSane is coming up now, and it seems to know that it needs the HP backend. Even talks to the scanner. Thing is, when I request a color preview it gets right up to the very last part of the preview scan, then seg faults. Apparently something in the closing discussion between sane, uscanner, and the scanner itslef isn't happening properly. The scanner itself sounds kind of muddled just prior to the segfault as well. Time to bug the folks over on the sane-devel list, or is this a uscanner problem? Michael Collette wrote: > Howdy, > > Just picked up one of these scanners today, and I've been futzing around > with > this thing for the last couple of hours with very little luck. Here's > some of the details... > > Sane can tell there's a scanner there, but it can't tell which one. > sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at > device /dev/uscanner0 > > And the verbose output from sane-find-scanner > sane-find-scanner: checking /dev/uscanner0... open ok, but vendor and > product could NOT be identified > sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at > device /dev/uscanner0 > > FreeBSD is getting it right on the boot... from dmesg: > uscanner0: Hewlett-Packard HP ScanJet 6300C, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2 > > All the USB stuff appears to be up and running. Read over Warren Block's > tutorial he posted, and I believe I've tweaked the recommended config > files. In my case... > > ## [/usr/local/etc/sane.d] cat hp.conf > usb /dev/uscanner0 > > I actually tried a number of different things in this file, but it doesn't > seem to be relevant until the scanner can be identified. Maybe it is and > it's just tweaked wrong. The man page for sane-hp mostly stressed on them > fancy OfficeJets. > > And lastly, my FreeBSD uname... > 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Sat Aug 31 03:01:09 PDT 2002 > > > I've gotten SCSI scanners to play nice on FreeBSD in the past. It's been > a > while though. I'm either missing some silly little tweak, or this scanner > just doesn't play via USB. I've seen a LOT of references stating that it > does, thus the reason for purchasing this particular scanner. Need to > figure out which it is before I can't take it back! :) > > Thanks, -- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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