From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 14:40:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD8816A41F for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:40:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9158D13C468 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:40:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l54EeHc5080030; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:40:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:40:24 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <340a29540706021415w2b8055edp4c82b346d8d48010@mail.gmail.com> <20070602224846.GB35067@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070602224846.GB35067@slackbox.xs4all.nl> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706041040.25283.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Roland Smith , Andrew Falanga Subject: Re: Flatbed scanners for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:40:19 -0000 On Saturday 02 June 2007 06:48:46 pm Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:15:22PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > What scanners are best used with FreeBSD? I'm hoping for one that I > > can use in both Windoze and FreeBSD. Preferably, one that is USB. > > I've never configured a scanner for FreeBSD before and would like > > recommendations on hardware before purchasing. > > Look at the website for the SANE (acanner access now easy) project. If > it is listed there, it will probably work; > > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#SCANNERS > > I've had good experiences with Epson scanners, but mine is several years > old, and you can't buy them anymore. > > If you have a specific model in mind, google for it's name in > combination with SANE, to see if it comes up on the SANE mailing > list. E.g. they've gotten the cheap Epson Perfection V10 working recently; > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-November/017993.ht >ml Also keep in mind that SANE can use libusb for scanner access even if said scanner is not supported by FreeBSD's uscanner. I have an Epson CX4800 scanner/printer/cardreader. If I don't have ulpt or umass in the kernel, the scanner works fine via libusb. I assume for a standalone scanner the multifunction strangeness wouldn't be an issue. JN