<nofill>>On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:40:07AM -0800, Joe Hudson wrote: >> I'd like to use SANE to work with a Panasonic KV-S2025 but I don't >> see any support for any Panasonic scanners at all. >> Does anybody know if they're available under another name or such? > >If it's a SCSI or USB scanner, what does sane-find-scanner print? > >> If not, does anyone know why there's no support, I mean, it is just >> that it happens that nobody's gotten around to it yet, or is it >> because Panasonic won't release specs? > >Maybe the problem is that there are not very many of these scanners? >At least I have didn't even know that there are Panasonic scanners.
It's not easy to get the SCSI specification of the KV-S2025 from Panasonic. You also have to sign a 'non disclosure' contract. So you are not allowed to publish a SANE driver. Oliver</nofill>
