From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 8: 3:26 2003 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 F381B37B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:03:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E561F43F3F for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:03:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1042646597.11c612@mired.org) Received: (qmail 47251 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2003 16:03:17 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 10 Jan 2003 16:03:17 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15902.61124.855354.682478@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:03:16 -0600 To: Pascal Giannakakis Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scanner for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <4660.1042204731@www26.gmx.net> References: <4660.1042204731@www26.gmx.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 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/0.68 (Shut Out) 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 In <4660.1042204731@www26.gmx.net>, Pascal Giannakakis typed: > what do I have to consider when buying a flat bed scanner for a > FreeBSD-CURRENT box? As already pointed out, sane is in the ports. It's the preferred tool for dealing with scanners. See for a list of supported devices. > Is there any possibilty to share the scanner in an Network, pretty > much like a printer? Sane will do that for you. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html 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