Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:26:04 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: Geoffrey <geoffrey@reptiles.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sane configuration in Freebsd 7 Message-ID: <20080909162604.GA1032@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20080909064619.Y64474@gecko.reptiles.org> References: <20080908172940.K64474@gecko.reptiles.org> <20080909055234.GA98761@abigail.blackend.org> <20080909064619.Y64474@gecko.reptiles.org>
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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
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