[sane-devel] Re: back-end Scanjet4370

[Wolfram Heider]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:45:21 +0200, Bertrik Sikken <bertrik at sikken.nl>  
wrote:

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> Huub wrote:
>>>
>>> Have you looked in the sane-project.org scanner search engine?
>>> (site seems do be down now)
>>>
>>> The model number suggests that it is similar to the ScanJet 4300,
>>> which is supported by the niash backend. It could be that your
>>> scanner is not recognised simply because its USB vendor/product
>>> ID pair is not known to the backend.
>>>
>>> Can you post the output of 'sudo lsusb -vv'?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Bertrik
>>
>> Wish I could:
>>
>> $ sudo lsusb -vv
>> Password:
>> sudo: lsusb: command not found
>> $
>>
>> Tried to install it, but no such luck. Any other suggestion?
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> I think lsusb is usually part of the usbutils package.
>
> Otherwise try sane-find-scanner.
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> Bertrik
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Bad news: the Scanjet 4370 is rated 'unsupported' due to
http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/hp-scanjet-4370.html

But there is also mentioed an external backend there that may work.

Wolfram Heider