[sane-devel] Scanjet 5P on FreeBSD

[paul beard]

Kai Haberzettl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get my HP Scanjet 5P to run on FreeBSD (using the 1.0.7
> from the ports).
> 
> on bootup, the scanner is correctly identified:
> 
>    pass0 at tekram_trm0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
>    pass0: <HP C5110A 3701> Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device 
>    pass0: 3.300MB/s transfers
> 
> FreeBSD recognizes the scanner:
> 
>    zaphod# camcontrol devlist -v
>    scbus0 on tekram_trm0 bus 0:
>    <HP C5110A 3701>                   at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass0)
>    <  >                               at scbus0 target -1 lun -1 ()
>    scbus-1 on xpt0 bus 0:
>    <  >                               at scbus-1 target -1 lun -1 (xpt0)
> 
> However Sane recognizes that there is a Scanner, but not which one:
> 
>    sane-find-scanner: searching for SCSI scanners:
>    sane-find-scanner: checking /dev/pass0... open ok
>    sane-find-scanner: found SCSI disk "  " at device /dev/pass0
>    sane-find-scanner: searching for USB scanners:
>    sane-find-scanner: checking /dev/pass0... open ok, but vendor and product could NOT be identified
>    sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/pass0
> 
>    # `UNKNOWN vendor and product' means that there seems to be a scanner
>    # at this device file but the vendor and product ids couldn't be 
>    # identified. Currently identification only works with Linux versions
>    # >= 2.4.8. 
>  

This is very similar to what I saw with my PMac 9500 and 
NetBSD/macppc. The scanner was "seen" by the scsicontrol 
utilities/dmesg but all SANE could find was a scanner of unknown 
type.


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