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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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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

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