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<p>The story:</p>
<p>The coolscan belongs to my friend. He's in his 80's, can't
walk. He was a professional photographer and also did photo-art
and worked on the local-newspaper as the camera-guy. He got hit
by a truck and his legs don't function anymore. He had a win98
system somewhere in his house the nikon coolscan was connected to,
but I haven't found it yet. I offered to help him get the
coolscan working again so he would be able to scan his film and
resume his art and sell his pictures again. Because all he gets
to live on is SSI and medicare and I can't afford to support him.</p>
<p>I found out yesterday that the firewire hardware needed to adapt
to my laptop doesn't exist anymore and the intel-code to support
it only exists in generation 11 and older. My laptop is a gen 10
and his laptop is one year older than mine. I live on SSI too, so
I can't buy much to help him with. I've got a Intel 6gen small
form factor Dell computer a pci-board would fit into that's just
consuming space. The board won't arrive till next week. I was
never an Apple guy although I do know they used BSD for an OS.
Would the Nikon be more likely to work if I put a BSD OS on a
computer?</p>
<p>The poor results with the coolscan3 response tells me it's the
cable (I bought two from different vendors) or the nikon coolscan
itself. There's a vague burnt electronics smell emanating from
the nikon but I didn't find any damage upon inspection. There's a
voltage divider power-load in the power-supply, the smell seems to
be from there so I'm thinking it's ok.</p>
<p>I really appreciate your assistance/advice in this.</p>
<p>jan</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/18/25 10:18, Ralph Little wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at
3:39 AM Jan via sane-devel <<a
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style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I
see the files: coolscan2.conf, coolscan3.conf and
coolscan.conf in my <br>
sane directory. I have a Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 ED
connected to my <br>
Dell Latitude 5410. When I put "scanimage -L" into my
terminal I get : <br>
('v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname Integrated_Webcam_HD:
Integrate virtual <br>
device) for a response. I think this is the laptop's
camera, not the Nikon.<br>
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<div>According to the coolscan3 manpage, it is said to support
this device through firewire.</div>
<div>I don't know much about firewire support in SANE, but you
could try this:</div>
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<div>SANE_DEBUG_COOLSCAN3=128 scanimage -L</div>
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<div>...and let us see the output. </div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Ralph</div>
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