Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote:

> This is exactly the point where I get confused.
>
> # cat /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf | grep -v "^#"
> usb 0x03f0 0x0401
> /dev/uscanner0
> #  sane-find-scanner -v
> [...]
> checking /dev/uscanner0... open ok, but vendor and product could NOT be 
> identified
> found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/uscanner0
> [...]

Hmm.  What does 'scanimage -L' say?

The only other thing I can think of trying would be to check that 
'usbdevs -v' shows matching USB vendor and product codes.  HP may have 
revised them.

> I get the impression that hp.conf is not read at all, because I created an
> hp.conf with nonsense contents, but sane-find-scanner was not bothered.

sane-find-scanner may not care, but the rest of SANE should.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA