[sane-devel] UMAX and netbsd/macppc woes persist

[abel deuring]

paul beard wrote:
> 
> well, I seem to be stuck. So far, I've been able to verify that
> the scanner hardware and cabling work in MacOS but not in NetBSD
> with SANE. I haven't heard anything resembling a success story
> with SANE and Apple/PowerPC hardware, so if there are any, I'd be
> interested to see them.
> 
> Since the kernel and scsictl can both see the scanner but SANE
> can't, what's missing? Is the kernel somehow not cooperating with
> SANE? and if not, how does scsictl get around that problem? I have
> already posted ktruss output of scsictl and SANE probing the
> device, but if anyone would like to see it again or can suggest
> other methods, please let me know.
> 
> I can capture ktruss output as needed or provide any other
> debugging assistance/testing. I'd like not to have to buy a SCSI
> card for one of my Intel boxes just to resolve this issue: sounds
> like a Windows solution to me.
> 
> I don't even know what this error means:
> 
>          "scanimage: open of device umax:/dev/uk0 failed: Invalid
> argument\n"

After all, this is a new error message isn't it ;) Did you check the
permission settings? Can you run 

	export SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=255
	scanimage umax:/dev/uk0

and send me the debug output?

Abel