[sane-devel] New backend: gt68xx for some Mustek USB scanners

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:01:45PM +0200, Alexander S A Kjeldaas wrote:
> My CD contains a LinuxDriver/English/en.tgz tarball which contains a
> BearPaw100CU_EN-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm file.  If you install this, you will
> find the firmware in /usr/local/bin/ps1fw.usb

Hey that's cool! They even put this Linux panel driver on the CD. As
far as I know that's the first time Mustek did that.

> However, this firmware is a bit different from the one I have in my
> WinXP directory (28 bytes shorter).  From the timestamps on the CD, it
> looks like the one in the WinXP directory might be the newer of the
> two.  MD5:
> 
> 86b34f960429b05e2ad7cd2b5c293b83  PS1fw.usb  (WinXP version)
> 9def003d34cd8334dc09ba5c7c2a6d18  ps1fw.usb  (LinuxDriver version)
> 
> PS1fw.usb is 8032 bytes, ps1fw.usb is 8004 bytes long.  The xdelta
> between the two is 1709 bytes long, so it looks like they are fairly
> different.

Thanks. I didn't realize that the ps1fw.usb file is also in the RPM. I
just saw the ps2fw.usb which didn't work on my scanner. The ps1fw.usb
does, however. So everyone can get it from their website (at least for
Bearpaw 1200 CU scanners).

Bye,
  Henning