From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 02:16:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3564F16A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:16:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from auk1.snu.ac.kr (auk1.snu.ac.kr [147.46.100.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D616943D45 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:16:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stopspam@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from [147.46.44.181] (stopspam@users.sourceforge.net) by auk1.snu.ac.kr (Terrace Internet Messaging Server) with ESMTP id 2004061011:16:21:739131.24301.2460732336 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:16:21 +0900 (KST) Message-ID: <40C7C47D.7060902@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:16:29 +0900 From: Rob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TERRACE-SPAMMARK: NO (SR:8.99) (by Terrace) Subject: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:16:36 -0000 Hi, I've been using FreeBSD for many years now; usually sticking closely to the Stable updates. I'm aware of some the do-it-yourself style with setting up my routers, nameservers, webservers, printer servers etc. All of this was reasonably well documented and meanwhile I learned something about computing itself. All good reasons to advertise FreeBSD as a 'fun' OS. Not so with this scanner stuff. I have an HP ScanJet 5200C; or better I claimed it in our lab from one of my Windows collegues. I've been struggling with sane, sane-find-scanner and its family commands in the back/front-ends. The problem is that I don't really know what I'm doing, so my story hereafter may sound a bit chaotic. All I get with sane-find-scanner is found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/uscanner0 Somewhere in the docs it says that I have to tell my kernel about the vendor and product.....in the kernel? Tried to find out how, couldn't. Then it talks about libusb. Mentions vaguely /dev/ugen* somewhere, without any useful details. Compiled ugen into the kernel, to no avail. I am totally lost here. And even worse: I'm about to bow deeply for my Windows collegue. What he did within 5 minutes with this scanner, I couldn't in the last 3 days. Is somebody willing to help me out here, before I give up completely? A first help would be: how about this vendor & product stuff. How and where do I unform the system? Which configuration file is needed for that? I have modified /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf to: # HP ScanJet 5200C usb 0x03f0 0x0401 (rest I left commented out) But that doesn't seem to do anything. Even putting rubbish in the hp.conf file doesn't seem to affect the result of sane-find-scanner. So I concluded that this hp.conf is the wrong configuration file for sane-find-scanner. I have no idea where to continue. Please help! Thanks so much! Rob.