On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Rob Hills <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rhills@medimorphosis.com.au">rhills@medimorphosis.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi Gernot,</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">--- On Sat, 3/20/10, Gernot Hassenpflug <aikishugyo at <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> I've been looking at the list of unsupported Canon scanners, concentrating on the CanoScan and LiDE series. Seems the</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> LiDE series all uses Genesys Logic chips and/or Philips CP2155BE front-end. But some of the CanonScan series are still</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> apparently unknown, and it would be fantastci if one or more of those used an existing protocol. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> Is there anyone who would be able to sniff a Windows USB log of the following scanners: </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> * CanoScan 4200F </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> * CanoScan 5200F </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> * CanoScan 9900F </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> * CanoScan 9950F </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> Alternatively, opening up the scanner and listing all the chip information :-) But a sniff will be enough to get quite</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> a bit of information. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> I see there appears to be a driver on Sourceforge, but I have no knowledge of what it can do:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#7f0000" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/cs5200drv/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/cs5200drv/</a> </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">You posted this nearly a year ago, are you still working on it? I have
CanoScan 9950F and I can do a sniff for you if you still want one.</span></font></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br>Hi Rob,<br>No, sorry, I am not involved in this anymore, I was trying to find devices that use a known pixma protocol, but that is not the case for the above scanners. You'll need to check the mailing list archives for separate threads on these scanners, if there are any, or start your own with USB sniffing. Genesys backend development is very lively, so if your scanner has such a chip, it is likely you will be roped in to help with support pretty quickly.<br>
Best regards,<br>Gernot Hassenpflug<br>