From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 16:26:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15120106568C for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:26:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (ns0.blackend.org [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8163E8FC1C for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:26:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m89GQ5wK001523; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:26:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m89GQ520001210; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:26:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.14.2/8.14.1/Submit) id m89GQ48e001209; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:26:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:26:04 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Geoffrey Message-ID: <20080909162604.GA1032@gothic.blackend.org> References: <20080908172940.K64474@gecko.reptiles.org> <20080909055234.GA98761@abigail.blackend.org> <20080909064619.Y64474@gecko.reptiles.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080909064619.Y64474@gecko.reptiles.org> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sane configuration in Freebsd 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:26:09 -0000 On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 06:59:04AM -0400, Geoffrey wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > Hi Marc > > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 05:36:18PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote: > >> > >> Hi > >> > >> Regarding > >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html, > >> > >> sane-find-scanner won't find a scanner if uscanner is in the kernel (as > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm not sure to understand you. What do you mean by "sane-find-scanner > > won't find a scanner if uscanner is in the kernel" ? > > > Sorry. I need to be more specific. "sane-find-scanner" will > not find a usb scanner if: > > BURP:#device uscanner # Scanners > > is not remarked out in your kernel config file OR if you load > the kld uscanner. Sane uses usblib and usblib can't find the scanner > if uscanner is loaded. > Yes, you have to build and install a new kernel to do this as > uscanner is in the generic kernel: > GENERIC:device uscanner # Scanners > [...] % sane-find-scanner -q found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9, product=0x220e) at /dev/uscanner0 % kldstat -v | grep scanner 267 uhub/uscanner I can reproduce the same behavior on another machine (both of them run a kernel with uscanner support in). You should check your configuration and maybe see if your scanner does not need you to load a firmware. -- Marc