From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 05:57:48 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 3B23716A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 05:57:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from auk1.snu.ac.kr (auk1.snu.ac.kr [147.46.100.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2FC143D45 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 05:57:47 +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 2004061014:57:36:426002.24301.3034917808 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:57:36 +0900 (KST) Message-ID: <40C7F85B.7040508@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:57:47 +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 References: <40C7C47D.7060902@users.sourceforge.net> <20040609204934.T35931@wonkity.com> <40C7D50F.9060702@users.sourceforge.net> <200406100716.55520.4711@chello.at> In-Reply-To: <200406100716.55520.4711@chello.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TERRACE-SPAMMARK: NO (SR:11.08) (by Terrace) Subject: Re: 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 05:57:48 -0000 Christian Hiris wrote: > On Thursday 10 June 2004 05:27, Rob wrote: > >>dev/uscanner0... open ok, but vendor and product could NOT be identified >>found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/uscanner0 >>[...] I have made some progress just now. I did a listing of /dev/usb* and found only "/dev/usb" and "/dev/usb0" I realised that the boot process initializes 4 usb ports: # grep -i usb /var/run/dmesg.boot uhci0: port 0xbc00-0xbc1f irq 2 at device 29.0 on pci0 usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhci1: port 0xb000-0xb01f irq 5 at device 29.1 on pci0 usb1: on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhci2: port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 6 at device 29.2 on pci0 usb2: on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhci3: port 0xb800-0xb81f irq 2 at device 29.3 on pci0 usb3: on uhci3 usb3: USB revision 1.0 pci0: at 29.7 irq 9 So I did a MAKEDEV of the other 3 usb devices usb1, usb2 and usb3 in /dev. And see what I get now: # usbdevs -v Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00 port 1 powered port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb1: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00 port 1 addr 2: full speed, self powered, config 1, HP ScanJet 5200C(0x0401), Hewlett-Packard(0x03f0), rev 1.00 port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb2: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00 port 1 powered port 2 powered Controller /dev/usb3: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000), Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00 port 1 powered port 2 powered # sane-find-scanner [...] found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0401) at /dev/uscanner0 So, I think I am now on the right track. I will have to figure out how to continue from here. But at least my mood has changed 180 degrees!!! Thanks for keeping me going on this. If you have some ideas how I should proceed from here, please tell me. Thanks again! Rob.