help setup an HP 3300C scanner

[Antonio Olivares]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Warren,
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>
>>> This as root though, but as simple user cannot do much :(, again xsane
>>> tells me that no devices were found :(
>>>
>>> Suggestions/Advice/comments are welcome and appreciated.
>>
>> To hit some relevant points...
>>
>> The uscanner device is gone, no longer needed with FreeBSD-8.
>>
>> devfs.conf hasn't been effective for dynamic devices for me.  Copying the
>> clever technique from sysutils/scanbuttond/pkg-message.in, I use devd.conf
>> to detect the scanner attach and detach devices and change permissions and
>> do whatever else is necessary.  Scanner users are a member of the saned
>> group.
>>
>> # WB
>> # detect Epson Perfection 1640SU scanner and start scanbuttond
>> attach 20 {
>>        device-name "ugen[0-9].[0-9]";
>>        match "vendor" "0x04b8";
>>        match "product" "0x010a";
>>        action "usb_devaddr=`echo $device-name | sed 's#^ugen##'` && \
>>                chown root:saned /dev/usb/${usb_devaddr}.* && \
>>                chmod 0660 /dev/usb/${usb_devaddr}.* && \
>>                su saned -c '/usr/local/bin/scanbuttond \
>>                -s /usr/local/etc/scanbuttond/buttonpressed.sh \
>>                -S /usr/local/etc/scanbuttond/initscanner.sh \
>>                -b /usr/local/lib/libscanbtnd-backend_epson.so'";
>> };
>>
>> # WB
>> # remove Epson Perfection 1640SU uscanner0 link and stop scanbuttond
>> detach 20 {
>>        device-name "ugen[0-9].[0-9]";
>>        match "vendor" "0x04b8";
>>        match "product" "0x010a";
>>        action "/usr/bin/pkill scanbuttond";
>> };
>>
>>
>
> Thank you for your message.  I have added the following:
>
> # AAO
> # detect HP ScanJet 3300C
> attach 20 {
>       device-name "ugen[0-9].[0-9]";
>       match "vendor" "0x03f0";
>       match "product" "0x0205";
>       action "usb_devaddr=`echo $device-name | sed 's#^ugen##'` && \
>               chown root:saned /dev/usb/${usb_devaddr}.* && \
>               chmod 0660 /dev/usb/${usb_devaddr}.* && \
>               su saned -c '/usr/local/bin/scanbuttond \
>               -s /usr/local/etc/scanbuttond/buttonpressed.sh \
>               -S /usr/local/etc/scanbuttond/initscanner.sh \
>               -b /usr/local/lib/libscanbtnd-backend_epson.so'";
> };
>
> # AAO
> # remove HP ScanJet 3300C
> detach 20 {
>       device-name "ugen[0-9].[0-9]";
>       match "vendor" "0x03f0";
>       match "product" "0x0205";
>       action "/usr/bin/pkill scanbuttond";
> };
>
>
>
> to file /etc/devd.conf and xsane still tells me that I do not have any devices?
>
> I restarted devd service
> # /etc/rc.d/devd restart
> and I get :
>
> quadcore# /etc/rc.d/devd restart
> devd not running?
> Starting devd.
> devd: devd already running, pid: 801
> /etc/rc.d/devd: WARNING: failed to start devd
>
> I have also added myself to the "saned" group:
>
> quadcore# cat /etc/group | grep 'saned'
> saned:*:194:olivares
>
> What else do I need to do?
>
> Thank you for your help & suggestions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>

Warren,

I have rebooted to see if it* would make a difference, and it worked :)
I am happy!  Thank you very much for your assistance.

Regards,

Antonio

* made the big difference, scanner was detected by xsane!