[sane-devel] yet another 5400c sucker

[Joacim Persson]

Hi. I just subscribed to this list, after realising I should have bought
myself an Epson instead. ;)

I use Linux.

So far I got my 5400c recognised on the USB, and by sane-find-scanner, but
not yet by scanimage -L (won't actually work anyway, but it would be nice
to at least see a sign of life ...or life in death)

I cheated the scanner.o module though. Simply added it to the list in the
code. I have no idea if this is a sane (hehe) way to do it.
No luck with the hpusbscsi module, using the same hack. (poorly documented
module, unfortunately. And I didn't explore it further after getting
contact through scanner.o)

I also had a look at the mailing list archives and downloaded the
(test/alpha) hp3300c backend. Will have a go at it shortly.

A couple of questions:

Is HP one of these companies which has a freeware-hostile policy, or can
the protocol specs be downloaded from someplace?
(how about the chipset vendor?)

Can the windows software that came with the scanner be used (with any
success) under Wine?  (seems like one approach to reverse-engineer the
protocol, apart from actually making use of the scanner for the moment,
short of setting up a windows machine, which is bad for my nerves...)