[sane-devel] Re: modules/microtek

[Karsten Festag]

Hi Moby,

the Scanmaker 5700 is not yet supported by SANE. But there may be a chanc=
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get it to work via the firewire interface. I have no experiences with thi=
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but I think there is a kernel module which makes a firewire device appear=
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as a generic SCSI device (/dev/sg....). Then you should be able to detect=
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scanner with sane-find-scanner and if we are lucky the scanner uses comma=
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similar to the microtek2 scanners.=20
Perhaps somebody in the SANE mailing list can give some hints concerning =
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firewire setup?
If sane-find-scanner detects your scanner please follow the instructions =
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the manpage and send me a logfile.

Regards,

Karsten


On Thursday 02 January 2003 17:44, you wrote:
> I am running Red Hat 8.0 with a 2.4.19-opp18 kernel.
> I have a Microtek Scanmaker 5700. I can't detect it
> from
> the USB or from the PCMCIA slot where I have a Belkin
> F5U512 firewire card. I have installed the sane
> backend
> package. Could you tell me how to get Sane to detect
> the scanner or suggest some modules to load.
>
>                Regards,
>                       moby
>
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