[sane-devel] Looking for a small business card sized scanner

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On 2006-01-19 16:40, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> I picked up a ScanShell 800N, but sadly, it doesn't appear to be 
> supported by SANE.

Google finds only 160 hits for "ScanShell 800N". Either it's really
new or it's rather uncommon.

>  3) Writing a new driver for the 800N

Only the standard one: look at www.sane-project.org, section
"Contributing".

>  found USB scanner (vendor=0x0a82, product=0x6605, chip=LM983x?) at 
> libusb:004:006

0x0a82 seems to be used by Syscan.
Run it as root to check if it's really a LM983x chip.

Please also send the "sane-find-scanner -v -v" output as root.

Bye,
  Henning