Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:00:41 +0100 From: Blue Raccoon <blue.raccoon@wanadoo.nl> To: Joe Altman <fj@panix.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c Message-ID: <200511152100.42399.blue.raccoon@wanadoo.nl> In-Reply-To: <20051115173759.GA7113@panix.com> References: <20051115164610.F3B1216A466@hub.freebsd.org> <20051115173759.GA7113@panix.com>
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Joe, Thanks for your tips. On Tuesday 15 November 2005 18:37, Joe Altman wrote: > I suggest trying to put this after the "niash" in the dll.conf file: > :/dev/uscanner0 I did, but it makes no difference. > And you know that your USB port works, because you use XP on this > machine, correct? Correct. > You will also need to set up device bits, in /etc/devfs.conf: > #####Scanner > perm uscanner0 <the perms you wish to have, like 0660 or 0666> Perms I wish to have? I'm afraid that means nothing to me. > I suggest here: <http://xsane.org/>; > and here: <http://www.sane-project.org/>. They have a patch (source code) that can alter the SANE source to become Scanjet3400c compatible. I may have to look into that, but I also found this in the patch documentation: **************************************************** before trying to make your scanner work, call: $ less /proc/bus/usb/devices if your scanning device is not listed by name, you probably have a 3400C or 4300C and difficulties with the kernel-usb. The forum will give you information, how to change the kernel code, to make your scanner work. **************************************************** My /proc/ is totally empty. It is not clear what forum they are referring to. Even more frightening is this, in the SANE documentation: **************************************************** To get your scanner detected by the uscanner driver, it may be necessary to add its vendor and device ids to the kernel and recompile. Use MAKEDEV to generate the /dev/uscanner* files if they are not already there. Use sane-find-scanner to find your scanner and edit your backend's configuration file appropriately. ****************************************************** Good point, since I have no /dev/uscanner* - but I have no MAKEDEV command either! And there are more lines I simply do not understand: ****************************************************** If you want to use libusb, your scanner should *not* be claimed by the uscanner driver. Make sure, that /dev/ugen* and /dev/usb* devices are available. Use /dev/MAKEDEV to create them, if necessary. ****************************************************** I come straight from Windows XP. Perhaps I bit off a bit more than I can chew... Can this be solved by a newbie? thanks again, -Jay
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