CanoScan 5000F Driver Support

[Arne Wörner]

> > When I plugged in my Canon LIDE20 scanner,
> > 1. I decided to make the FreeBSD uscanner driver to like
> LIDE20
> > scanners
> >     I used usbdevs -v to find out the vendor and product code
> >     in /sys/dev/usb/usbdevs there is a list of devices
> >     in /sys/dev/usb/uscanner.c there is a list of scanners
> >       (I updated both lists)
> 
> this is not needed for the Lide20..
> There is already another device ther ewith the same IDs
> that is recognised (from the same family of scanners I presume)
> 
Yes, that is true for R5.3. But: When I plugged in the LIDE20 the
first time it was not (R5.1 or so).

I just wanted to describe the process for a scanner that is not
supported by FreeBSD.

-Arne



		
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