Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:58:16 -0500 From: "David M. Heller" <dheller1@rochester.rr.com> To: Scott Reese <sreese@codysbooks.com>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why won't my HP Scanner work with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3A63C6D8.A3E5656E@rochester.rr.com> References: <3A636CF3.A6DA7F35@codysbooks.com> <20010116103703.A77671@itouchnz.itouch> <3A63732F.E963115E@codysbooks.com> <20010116111116.A78068@itouchnz.itouch> <3A638830.4B67CF86@codysbooks.com> <20010116144320.A84471@itouchnz.itouch> <3A63AC16.B4F7AAB3@codysbooks.com>
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Scott Reese wrote: > > Thank you. I did as you suggested and SANE has indeed installed successfully. > However, I'm still in a bit of a bind as to how to actually install the device > itself. There is absolutely no documentation on this anywhere that I can see. I'm > now as far as trying to run xsane from Gimp and now I get the message "no devices > available." Would you happen to know where I can find docs on this that actually > tell me how to install the thing? Sane sure doesn't provide any and neither does HP > (I've spent the better part of 2 days looking)... > > Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:30:56PM -0800, Scott Reese wrote: > > > I've attached the last 50 lines of the output from the make command. All of the > > > modules that were compiled had warnings similar to those seen here. What should > > > I do? > > > > [...] > > > > I've just tried compiling SANE, and it has just completed with no errors. > > This is on a 4.2-STABLE machine, with cvsup'd ports system from just 2 > > days ago. I suggest that you get the latest version of the ports system > > (with cvsup being the best way) and retry compilation. > > -- > > Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" > > - Douglas Hofstadter > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Look at your dmesg output (dmesg | grep pass) there should be a line referring to your scsi scanner device such as pass1 pass2 etc. Now got to dir /usr/local/etc/sane.d there should be a file called hp.conf append the following to the end of the file : /dev/pass* sane should work now. I would recommend installing xsane or similiar program to access your device. Good Luck, Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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