Thanks Henning. > > sane-find-scanner > > ----------------- > > sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at > > device /dev/uscanner > > sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at > > device /dev/uscanner0 > > Now the open succeeded which means there is some sort of driver that > answers to /dev/uscanner0. Hopefully it's the uscanner driver :-) > > The vendor and device ids can't be detected under FreeBSD because (as > far as I know) the uscanner driver doesn't provide this facility. > There might be workarounds, however (patches welcome). > > So everything is ok.
The *one* time I choose to be cautious and not just have a go, it turns out that it would have been fine :) > > Some progress, but I'm out of leads. Any ideas on what I should try > > next? > > As automatic configuration doesn't work with FreeBSD, you must edit > the config file (I guess /usr/local/etc/sane.d/coolscan2.conf in your > case). Probably a line like "usb:/dev/uscanner" will work, but I don't > own any Nikon scanners. For the record, another problem I had was when using scanimage. I had the device name as "coolscan2:/dev/uscanner" instead of "coolscan2:usb:/dev/uscanner". It all seems to be working fine now. All that remains is to learn how to turn it into a positive. Cheers James
