From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 13:37:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE14737B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:37:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0FLb3G77933; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:37:03 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:37:03 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Scott Reese Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why won't my HP Scanner work with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010116103703.A77671@itouchnz.itouch> References: <3A636CF3.A6DA7F35@codysbooks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A636CF3.A6DA7F35@codysbooks.com>; from sreese@codysbooks.com on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:34:44PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:34:44PM -0800, Scott Reese wrote: > I have an HP ScanJet 5200C connected in parallel to my PC. I have gone > through the SANE documentation and it claims that it DOES support HP > Scanners connected in parallel. However, it requires two modules > (ppscsi and epst) which are available at: > ftp://ftp.torque.net/pub/ppSCSI-0.91.patch. The problem is that this > patch is intended for Linux and will not work on FreeBSD. I was > wondering if there was either a way to alter this patch so that it will > be compatible with FreeBSD or if there were any equivalent FreeBSD > patches. I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone is willing to > offer me on this. Have you tried building SANE using the ports sytem? Make sure your ports system is up to date, and then: cd /usr/ports/graphics/sane make && make install -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message