Adding SCSI Scanner

Marc Wiz marc at wiz.com
Thu Dec 11 08:02:42 PST 2003


On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:47:09AM -0700, Dr. Lyman Hazelton wrote:
> I didn't have my SCSI scanner (UMAX Astra 1200S) powered up when I 
> loaded FreeBSD 5.1.  I turned it on and re-booted the system, and it 
> certainly sees it (as seen in the dmesg report), but it simply says 
> it's part of "pass4:"... in other words, no driver associated with 
> it.  Is there some nice way of getting the system to use it, other 
> than reloading the entire system from scratch?  The system has been 
> up a few days and I've loaded a lot of other good stuff and got it 
> running just the way I want it to, so reloading and reconfiguring all 
> of it would be a lotta work.

Lyman,

look in ports: /usr/ports/graphics/xsane

That will get you what you need.

Marc
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