Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:39:07 -0500 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP ScanJet 4100c? Message-ID: <200512170239.21203.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051217043107.GB61448@thought.org> References: <20051217010221.GA60469@thought.org> <200512162019.49001.mistry.7@osu.edu> <20051217043107.GB61448@thought.org>
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--nextPart1176174.dGkPINbdOB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 16 December 2005 11:31 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:19:21PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > > On Friday 16 December 2005 08:02 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Guys, is this my big opportunity or what! :-) > > > > > > A friend bought an HP ScanJet 4100c for $15. For unknoen > > > reason, it does not work wsith W-XP, but might this work > > > with FBSD? > > > > > > Otherwise, I'm looking for a scanner with OCR-ware. For > > > either my W2K box or FBSD. I finally do have the book I'm > > > aiming to scan; I don;t know what happened to my friend > > > with the microfiche of this text. Zero reply. > > > > > > Is there anybody in the Western WA locale who'd be willing > > > to lend me scanner with OCR software or tell me what to > > > buy that works with FBSD. For $15, it's worth asking about. > > > > Check out if sane supports it. I'm in a similar situation with a > > HP Scanjet 6200C. The driver on the HP isn't actually a driver > > so the scanner is useless in Windows. I booted into FreeBSD, > > kldload uscanner, and started xsane, it worked perfectly. I > > haven't tried the OCR part of xsane, but it should work. > > Whoa, the online sane docs say that 4100C is supported. The next > obstacle is the USB jack. Even my 1999 test e-machine has a usb > thing hidden somewhere in front. This box, tao, is a barebones > box I built in 08/2001; so I'm sure it's got a usb port > somewhere. > > Do I have to build it into the kernel or what? IOW, what's the > deal with USB stuff? I've had enough headbanging with ye olden > COM[1234] ports. But it's time to get my fingers wet. Depending on what version of FreeBSD you're running you might want to=20 build usb into the kernel. If you just run "kldload uscanner" it=20 should automatically load the usb kernel module, if it's not already=20 in the default kernel, which I think it may be. The usb stuff should=20 work fine as long as you don't have some funky chipset. 6.0-RELEASE=20 should have pretty good support for usb. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart1176174.dGkPINbdOB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDo8CpxqA5ziudZT0RAh81AKCP/Tfe/37hNJGxrh23sGEfiVAhQACfVJEv XKX89NaDy/eIEaLlF8RuIOo= =Y0YD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1176174.dGkPINbdOB--
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