From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 31 09:16:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11371 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:16:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA11366 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:16:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id QAA07836; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:20:30 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199808311420.QAA07836@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: lpt port scanners (was: Re: What options for BW quickcam on 2.2.7 ? ) To: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de (Stefan Eggers) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:20:30 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de In-Reply-To: <199808310818.KAA06304@semyam.dinoco.de> from "Stefan Eggers" at Aug 31, 98 10:17:44 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > the effort, but for scanners etc it would be a very nice thing to do > > given that a lot of scanners on the market now seem to use the parallel > > port). > > If I knew a company which manufactures them and gives out detailed > information about the protocol used I'd probably have one already as a > scanner would be a nice addition to my machine. Anybody knowing one > who does have documentation and gives them out w/o NDA or other silly > things preventing real use in FreeBSD? i think we are not going to have any help from manufacturers. The only viable approach i think is if someone happens to have the hardware and either there is some scsi stuff implemented on top of the lpt interface, or there is some linux driver that one can use as a source. The only nice thing is that scanners have generally a simple logical interface cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message