[sane-devel] Re: Micortek SANE USB Config

[Karsten Festag]

Hi Race,

i'm afraid you will not be able to use the USB interface with this scanner and 
SANE under OSX. The microtek2 backend was written for SCSI scanners and the 
way some of the Microtek USB scanners work under Linux is a special kernel 
module called 'microtek.o' which makes the USB scanner appear as a SCSI 
device. I don't know if there is a similar possibility in OSX and I don't 
have the possibilitiy to include libusb support to the microtek2 backend 
because I don't have an USB scanner available and I have not enough leisure 
time left for such kind of project. But maybe someone else would like to do 
this? 

Best regards

Karsten

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 23:58, you wrote:
> I have installed all the appropriate software to utilize your SANE Microtek
> backend with my Scanmaker V6USL  but I am having a hell of a time
> configuring it to work at all. I want to use the USB interface.
>
> I am on on OSX X.3.2 and have installed
> TWAIN-SANE-Interface.pkg v0.4
> sane-backends.pkg 1.0.13-cvs 2004-01-25
> libusb.pkg 0.1.8 beta 2004-01-25
>
>
>
> When Running   sane-find-scanner   I receive:
>
>
> Race:~ race$ sane-find-scanner
>
>   # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure
> that
>   # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.
>
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x05da, product=0x00a3) at
> libusb:002:002-05da-00a3-ff-03
>   # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be
> supported by
>   # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.
>
>   # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
> can't be
>   # detected by this program.
>
>   # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
>   # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
>   # necessary.
> Race:~ race$
>
>
>
> The Config. File microtek2.config is set to:
>
> # See sane-microtek2(5) for a description of the options
>
> option dump 1
> option strip-height 14.0
> option no-backtrack-option on
> option lightlid-35 on
> option toggle-lamp on
> option lineart-autoadjust on
> option backend-calibration on
> #option colorbalance-adjust on
> scsi * * Scanner
>
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>
> Can you please advise.
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> Race