[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1650 USB on Solaris

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:47:22AM -0400, Kip Iles wrote:
> My name is Kip Iles (http://kiplandiles.com) and I am just getting into 
> working with SANE on the Solaris 8 platform (currently, on a Ultra 10 but 
> finally on a Blade server). I am trying to get an Epson Perfection 1650 
> USB, connected to a USB port on a SunRay to work and have not had any 
> success. I cant even get the PNM driver to work or be recognized as a valid 
> device so I am not even sure is SANE is truly operational.
> 
> I have tried the sane-1.0.6 + xsane-0.82 binary and also compiled the 
> latest and greatest sane-1.0.8 + xsane-0.86 source to no avail.

If you want to use the pnm backend, you must enable it in configure
(see PROBLEMS and configure --help). For testing, I would use the test
backend instead if you use SANE 1.0.8. Just run "scanimage -d test -T"
or add "test" to /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf and run scanimage
--help.

> I am a bit confused about USB support for Solaris 8 in SANE and was hoping 
> that someone may have already experimented on this front. Is SCSI the only 
> supported interface for SANE on Solaris at this time and if so, what can I 
> do to help fix that; libusb or javax.usb perhaps? Does USB support need to 
> be in the kernel already or might I be able to fake it by just including 
> USB and scanner support without actually having any real USB devices on the 
> server.

See my other post on this topic.

You need kernel support for USB in general, and at least support for
your USB root hub. Furthermore, a driver for scanners or at least a
way to access USB devices (something like the SCSI generic driver,
only for USB).

Bye,
  Henning