HP ScanJet 4100c?

[Anish Mistry]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 03:21 am, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 02:39:07AM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote:
> > On Friday 16 December 2005 11:31 pm, you wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:19:21PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote:
> > > > On Friday 16 December 2005 08:02 pm, Gary Kline wrote:
> > >
> > > 	Do I have to build it into the kernel or what?  IOW, what's
> > > the deal with USB stuff?  I've had enough headbanging with ye
> > > olden COM[1234] ports.  But it's time to get my fingers wet.
> >
> > Depending on what version of FreeBSD you're running you might
> > want to build usb into the kernel.  If you just run "kldload
> > uscanner" it should automatically load the usb kernel module, if
> > it's not already in the default kernel, which I think it may be. 
> > The usb stuff should work fine as long as you don't have some
> > funky chipset. 6.0-RELEASE should have pretty good support for
> > usb.
>
> 	I just tried a "lkdload uscanner" on my ThinkPad running 5.4
> 	and got
This just means that it is already built into the kernel.  Just plug 
in the scanner and you should see uscanner0: some stuff appear on the 
console.

>
> 	kldload: can't load uscanner: File exists
>
> 	In the USB section in /boot/loader.conf, everything was
> 	set to NO.  Which of these options should I switch to YES.
> 	---This goes for my other FBSD servers too.  I've never
> 	used anything usb so I'll check my KERNEL config files too.
>
> 	All my hardware is fairly standard.  Intel, HP, whatever
> 	ThinkPad has, and whatever's on the USB 2.0 m'board on my
> 	just-shipped AMD system.  I stick to the Keep It Simple Sir
> 	philosophy, so if  I need to buy a USB board I well.  Meanwhile,
> 	if you have any feedback about the /boot/loader.conf and
> 	KERNEL config files, I'd like to hear them.
>
> 	thanks!
>
> 	gary

-- 
Anish Mistry
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20051217/b72cc38c/attachment.bin