On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Ax0n <a...@h-i-r.net> wrote: > Slightly related, I have a CanoScan LiDE 100 that used to work great with > OpenBSD, using either ScanImage or simple-scan. It's detected, but sometime > around OpenBSD-5.6 it stopped working. I use it infrequently enough, and I > have enough computers that I usually just give up and have my wife use her > Windows laptop to scan for me. I have a slightly vested interest in having > my only scanner work with my main daily desktop/laptop OS.
Same here with same CanoScan LiDE 100, also don't know precisely when it stopped working. > > I'll try installing some old versions of OpenBSD and see if I can find > where it broke, and post dmesg's of the before/after mess, if anyone thinks > that would help. > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Anthony J. Bentley <anth...@anjbe.name> > wrote: > >> Base Pr1me writes: >> > Did you give your userland user/group permissions to use the uhub/ugen >> > device? >> >> Of course; without that I wasn't able to detect the scanner in the first >> place. >> >> > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:59 AM, Anthony J. Bentley <anth...@anjbe.name> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Bryan Linton writes: >> > > > Hello misc@ >> > > > >> > > > I'm currently looking to purchase a scanner that works well with >> OpenBSD. >> > > > >> > > > I'm aware of the list provided at: >> > > > >> > > > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html >> > > > >> > > > but I recently purchased (and returned) a scanner that was listed as >> > > being >> > > > fully supported on that list because no matter what I did, I couldn't >> > > > get it to work right with xsane or scanimage. Though I purchased it >> > > used, >> > > > so it's possible it may have simply been broken from the get-go. >> > > > >> > > > Does anyone happen to know of a scanner that is *known* to work well >> > > > with OpenBSD? >> > > >> > > Well, I just bought a CanoScan 9000F MkII specifically because it was >> > > marked as fully supported on that list, and I can say it does NOT work >> > > on OpenBSD; scanimage -L detects it just fine but attempting to scan >> > > gives an I/O error. As a workaround I plugged it into a Linux laptop, >> > > started saned, and scan seamlessly from OpenBSD with scanimage's >> network >> > > support, until I find the time to make a proper bug report. >> > > >> > > In the past I used a CanoScan LiDE 20 quite regularly from OpenBSD, but >> > > that was several years ago. >> > > >> > > >> >>
