FreeBSD scanners

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:17:00AM -0400, Charles Ulrich wrote:
> <aanton at spintech.ro> wrote:
> > Please, if any of you has confident experience with any of the following
> > scanners under FreeBSD, please let me know. I must find something available
> > for buying and it must work smoothly in FreeBSD (otherwise there's no point
> > of buying a new scanner, as I already have one which is not working in
> > anything else but Windows..)
> >
> > EPSON perfection 1670
> > EPSON perfection 1670 Photo
> 
> A little tip: check out Epison's Clearance Center on their website if you're
> in the market for one of their scanners. I secured a Perfection 1660 Photo for
> half the price of a brand-new 1670. (Except for the chipset inside, the 1660
> and 1670 seem to be identical in every way.)
> 
> Haven't quite gotten it working with FreeBSD and SANE but that's due more to a
> lack of time to figure out exactly why SANE can't see the scanner on the bus.
>

A quick read of
ttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html
will give you the answer :)

Marc