[sane-devel] Canon P-215 USB modeswitching

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi!

I am currently trying to get the Canon P-215 document scanner
working with SANE backends 1.0.24 from Debian unstable, the
scanner is reported to have basic support.

The scanner integrates a USB mass storage device to store drivers
and applications for Windows and MacOS allowing the scanner to
be used without the hassle of dealing with installation media.

Thus, when connecting the scanner to my Linux box, it's shown
as a mass storage device with a different device ID (0x1647
instead of 0x1646 which is the device ID listed in /etc/sane.d/
canon_dr.conf).

I have been playing around with usb_modeswitch to set the scanner
into scanner mode, but without success.

Does anyone know the proper call to usb_modeswitch to invoke the
scanner mode? Since the scanner has been reported to work with
SANE, I suppose someone knows how to do that :).

Cheers,

Adrian

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