It's a parallel port scanner and the SANE website says that there it is
unlikely ever to be supported.
Win4Lin or vmware sound like they might do the trick though. I have no
requirement to access the scanner from Linux only from the Windows machines.
How do Win4Lin and vmware work and where do I get them?
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Scanner
> Is it a USB, Parallel, or SCSI model?
>
> There are SANE drivers for some UMAX Parallel and SCSI
> models. If it is a USB model, look for a new scanner. It is
> unlikely that there will ever be SANE drivers because UMAX
> refuses to release the specifications on its USB models.
>
> Even if the scanner is sharable over the network (I've only
> seen a few high-end scanners that are networkable) you
> still have the problem of the drivers only working under
> Windows.
>
> If it is a parallel scanner for which there are no Linux
> drivers, you might be able to use Win4Lin or vmware to
> access the scanner. I use Win4Lin to access my scanner and
> it works great. (although I wish I could scan directly into
> GIMP...) This method might also work with SCSI scanners
> under vmware but I've never tried it.
>
> > Does anyone know if there's a driver for the UMAX 600P.
> Unfortunately it is
> > not supported by SANE. Also once installed can I share
> the scanner of my
> > network (SAMBA/Win98/W2K)?
