From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 08:07:13 2003 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 A4EFA16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:07:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC1AD43D09 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:07:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id hBBG6ut3019049; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:06:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:06:55 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: "Dr. Lyman Hazelton" Message-ID: <20031211160655.GH2435@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200312110847.09740.lrh@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200312110847.09740.lrh@alum.mit.edu> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-BETA X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: tech@freebsdmall.com Subject: Re: Adding SCSI Scanner 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, 11 Dec 2003 16:07:13 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 11), Dr. Lyman Hazelton said: > I didn't have my SCSI scanner (UMAX Astra 1200S) powered up when I > loaded FreeBSD 5.1. I turned it on and re-booted the system, and it > certainly sees it (as seen in the dmesg report), but it simply says > it's part of "pass4:"... in other words, no driver associated with > it. Is there some nice way of getting the system to use it, other > than reloading the entire system from scratch? The system has been > up a few days and I've loaded a lot of other good stuff and got it > running just the way I want it to, so reloading and reconfiguring all > of it would be a lotta work. pass4 should be all the SANE port needs, actually. There are no kernel drivers for scanners. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com