Scanner in FBSD

Micah micahjon at ywave.com
Tue Dec 27 14:16:06 PST 2005


Bernt Hansson wrote:
> Hello?!
> 
> I have a scanner that is on the list at sane and it is connected to ppc0 
> which I belive is the first parallelport.
> 
> Anyone got a scanner attached to ppc0 to funktion? How?
> 
> 
> Scanner:
> 
> Primax 4800 Direct
> 
> Driver:
> 
> plustek_pp
> 
> OS:
> 
> FreeBSD 5.4
> 
> 

The last time I tried, plustek_pp required libieee1284 for parallel port 
access.  Libieee1284 is unsupported in FreeBSD (at least the 5 series 
FreeBSD).  Your best bet is to go out and get a supported USB or SCSI 
scanner or install your scanner on a Linux SANE server.

HTH,
Micah


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