HP Scanner:: zilch

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Gary Kline wrote:

>>> 	Hm, this is strange. I have two hp files in sane.d, both sseem
>>> 	oriented toward Linux.  There is an entry for the 4100c in
>>> 	"hp.conf", but it wants to create /dev/scanner.
>>
>> That line tells sane which device to use.  In FreeBSD, that's
>> /dev/uscanner0.
>
> How do I tell sane to use hp.conf (or my new hp4100.conf)?

AFAIK, sane just looks through all the conf files for something that 
matches the scanner devices found.  sane-find-scanner would be where it 
does that.

> My rational against hp.conf is the ^/dev/scanner line as
> well as the first SCSI line.  What does "scsi HP" do?
> I don't use SCSI in this FBSD server.

Just comment that line out.

> AFAIK, three of my USB modules are builtins.  Would you please
> grep "usb" your KERNEL file?  gotta be something like this
> why uscanner0 isn't there.

I have:

uhci
ohci
ehci
usb
ugen
uhid
ukbd
ulpt
umass
ums
uscanner

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA