[sane-devel] HP4400c Scanjet

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

I'm sending a CC to the list so the other readers can find it in the
archive.

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 03:30:59PM -0600, Chris wrote:
> On Sunday 17 November 2002 01:39 pm, you said, and I quote:
> 
> > As far as I know it's not supported. Check the mailing list archives
> > to be sure.
> 
> I've done extensive checking and can't find it anywhere, although I was 
> hoping there was a way.

There are quite some articles, but mostly "not supported" messages.
Search for "hp4400" or "4400c" in the sane-devel list archive.

> > To be sure, remove the scanner driver: rmmod scanner
> > Now load it again with the ids:
> > modprobe scanner vendor=0x03f0 product=0x0705
> 
> Did that, at least I got some output now.  sane-find-scanner gives me:
> 
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0705) at /dev/usb/scanner0 
> whether as root or user.  More than I've ever gotten before.

Ok.

> > However, you'll still need a backend for the scanner. If there isn't
> > anybody else, how about writing it yourself? If I read the archives
> > correctly, it's a Umax scanner in reality.
> 
> I think writing something like that is currently way above my level.  
> Although what it look like is I'll be taking a list of scanners supported by 
> Mandrake and going shopping in the near future and give this one to my son.
>
> Thanks very much for the assistance though, at least its found now.

Bye,
  Henning