From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 6:38:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A98E37B41A for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:38:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15601 invoked by uid 100); 28 Feb 2002 14:38:18 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15486.16601.930573.805009@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:38:17 -0600 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Manuel.Hendel@easygolucky.de Subject: Re: USB Sanner with FreeBSD!? In-Reply-To: <104503767@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson types: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:28:23PM +0000, Matt H wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:19:12 +0100 > > "Manuel Hendel" wrote: > > > I'm thinking about bying a USB Scanner, has anyone any experiences > > > with that? Please let me know! > The file > /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs > contains a list of all the recognised usb devices, including scanners. > I don't know if this means they all actually work (I presume they do) > but it does mean they will be recognised. No, all it means is that they will be recognized. I'm not sure about scanners, but for other devices, it doesn't even mean they'll be recognized as being a device of that type. The correct place to start is with the sane, and see if it supports your scanner via USB. If so, then you should be ok. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message