From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 24 21:29:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0659537BC54 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:29:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (idxwc02-147.idx.com.au [203.166.0.147]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA03666; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:29:29 +1000 From: Danny To: Philipp Huber Subject: Re: How to get FreeBSD to work with my Scanner Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:33:44 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20000423130624.A269@alanis.mini.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00042614350601.00347@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Ok I installed sane. Now I need to specify a device file like xsane -d somedevicefile . Question 1) what would be in the device file? Examples of the device might help. Looking foward to your feedback. dannyh dannyh@idx.com.au On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Philipp Huber wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:16:55PM +1000, Danny wrote: > > > > -- > > > > -Hello over the last few months I have finally to make FreeBSD my workstation > > also. > > -I have invested in Applixware for FreeBSD to do my job on FreeBSD, etc etc > > The only final stepping stone is to get my scanner working on FreeBSD > > > > -The scanner is plugged to the parallel port > > -The scanner is Optic Pro > > > > Question > > > > -I what entry I have to add /sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL file to get FreeBSD to work > > with the scanner > > > > -What do I do with MAKEDEV to get my scanner to work > > > > > > hi ! > > scanners are usually supported by sane (/usr/ports/graphics/sane), but i don't know if it supports your scanner. take a look. > > Philipp -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message