From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 20 03:03:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA26126 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 03:03:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from top.worldcontrol.com (snblitz.sc.scruznet.com [165.227.132.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA26026 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 03:03:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@worldcontrol.com) From: brian@worldcontrol.com Received: (qmail 985 invoked by uid 100); 20 Dec 1998 11:12:22 -0000 Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 03:12:21 -0800 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: USB, scanners, and SANE? Message-ID: <19981220031221.A972@top.worldcontrol.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.17i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been poking around the USB website and seperatedly noted the addition of support for USB under -current. Reading the www.usb.org site I mostly got the sense of Plug&Pray. Basically, plug it in, don't worry be happy. My wife as a HP Scanjet 4100CXI on her PC running [censored]. I'd like to take a stab at getting it to work under FreeBSD. I'm not above writing code. SANE has support for HP scanners of both SCSI and parallel port versions. Via the existing FreeBSD USB support will it be possible for me to create a communication channel for the SANE backend to talk to the scanner? HIDs and Classes (was it?) have me worried that I have to wait for particular support for scanner class devices. But on the other hand, maybe this is not that case, and perhaps I can use some generic interface to access the scanner. Any pointers or clarification on the FreeBSD USB interface would be appreciated. -- Brian Litzinger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message