From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 19:58:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout2.nyroc.rr.com (mailout2-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 136B537B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:58:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from rochester.rr.com (roc-66-24-71-185.rochester.rr.com [66.24.71.185]) by mailout2.nyroc.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA25920; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:54:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A63C6D8.A3E5656E@rochester.rr.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:58:16 -0500 From: "David M. Heller" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Reese , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Why won't my HP Scanner work with FreeBSD? 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "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