From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 22 19:58:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3720B37B76F for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:58:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA05572; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:28:24 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 12:28:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Danny Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get FreeBSD to work with my Scanner Message-ID: <20000423122824.I4675@freebie.lemis.com> References: <00042412211104.00333@freebsd.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <00042412211104.00333@freebsd.freebsd.org> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 24 April 2000 at 12:16:55 +1000, Danny wrote: > > -- > > -Hello over the last few months I have finally to make FreeBSD my workstation > also. > -I have invested in Applixware for FreeBSD to do my job on FreeBSD, etc etc > The only final stepping stone is to get my scanner working on FreeBSD > > -The scanner is plugged to the parallel port > -The scanner is Optic Pro > > Question > > -I what entry I have to add /sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL file to get FreeBSD to work > with the scanner You shouldn't need any kernel mods. > -What do I do with MAKEDEV to get my scanner to work Nothing. What you *do* need is a scanner package such as sane. Take a look at the port (/usr/ports/graphics/sane). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message