[sane-devel] Epson dx4400 support for asus wl500g router

[m. allan noah]

The epkowa backend supports some scanners that dont use binary
plugins. Your scanner requires a plugin.

allan

2010/2/16 Ondřej Skopal <ondrej.skopal at future-net.cz>:
> When googling around a bit, I found this page: https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/4444 , suggesting that epkowa is part of the openwrt. I have only very basic knowledge of linux, so I apologize if I just proposed something lame/stupid/impossible :), but afaik openwrt runs ok on wl500g, isn't there a possibility to get the backend here?
>
> Ondřej Skopal
>
> ----- Původní zpráva -----
> Od: m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>
> Odesláno: 16. února 2010 6:33 odp.
> Komu: Ondřej Skopal <ondrej.skopal at future-net.cz>
> Kopie: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org <sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Předmět: Re: [sane-devel] Epson dx4400 support for asus wl500g router
>
> Unfortunately, this scanner is supported by the epkowa backend, and
> requires a proprietary plugin which is not available for ARM Cpus. It
> is certainly possible for someone to reverse engineer the protocol,
> and produce a truly free driver. However, this could be a very
> time-consuming task.
>
> allan
>
> 2010/2/16 Ondřej Skopal <ondrej.skopal at future-net.cz>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was asking for help with my scanner/printer combo epson dx4400 on
>> wl500g.info forum. They told me that this scanner is generally supported by
>> sane, but not in the version for wl500g, and I was told to ask on this
>> mailing list. Is there any option to add the support for the scanner
>> mentioned, or any workaround for this issue? Thank you in advance for help.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ondřej Skopal
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