Adding SCSI Scanner

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Dec 11 08:07:13 PST 2003


In the last episode (Dec 11), Dr. Lyman Hazelton said:
> 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.

pass4 should be all the SANE port needs, actually.  There are no kernel
drivers for scanners.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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