[sane-devel] Re: Brother MFC 6800

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:27:04AM -0500, Fernando Trias wrote:
> The patch to detect multiple interfaces on a USB device seems to work.
> Thanks! Now, the same problem exists in sane-find-scanner.

Ok. I'll attach a new version of sane-find-scanner. Please test.

> I am using kernel version 2.4.19 so I need to upgrade in order for the
> scanner driver to work.

Yes. Or get only the scanner driver from
http://www.meier-geinitz.de/kernel/ .

> The Brother MFC 6800 is part of the MFC family of products. The vendor
> id is 0x04f9 and product id is 0x0111.

Ok. I'll add these ids to the scanner driver.

> The protocol is proprietary and Brother doesn't say much. Dmitri
> Katchalov did a lot of research and published his findings on this list:
> http://www.mostang.com/pipermail/sane-devel/2001-August/000234.html

> Nobody has developed a SANE driver for it so I am going to attempt
> writing one.

Ok. For the meantime, I'll add an entry in our "unsupported" list for
these two scanners and add a link to this posting.

Bye,
  Henning