[sane-devel] Canon PIXMA MP210

[Andy Webster]

Hello all,

After recently acquiring a Canon PIXMA MP210 I've got interested in 
setting up the scanner function. I've been watching this group for a 
month and it looks very supportive, hoefully someone can help me out...

I've been reading around the various Sane pages and tried running 
sane-find-scanner and scanimage. I've used a usb sniffer to sample a 
scan from windows so that it might be compared with other pixma devices 
that are supported (MP150...). The results are here:

http://alloutput.com/nslu2/scanner.html

I've searched but have failed to find any sample scan logs from the 
supported pixma scanners to compare with my sample scan.

As I understand it, the two ways to see if the existing pixma backend 
runs the MP210 are:
a) Compare and match the USB traffic between the MP210 and a supported 
pixma scanner to confirm they are using the same protocol
b) Force sane to use the existing pixma backend for the MP210 by 
inserting its vendor/product ID into the sane files and pointing sane to 
the same backend as the MP150 and giving it a try...

So far I've failed because (a) I haven't found any sample USB traffic 
from other pixma scanner and (b) I've searched through a large number of 
sane files and failed to find where to match vendor/product IDs to backends.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Andy