Hi, I'm sending a CC to the list so the other readers can find it in the archive.
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 03:30:59PM -0600, Chris wrote: > On Sunday 17 November 2002 01:39 pm, you said, and I quote: > > > As far as I know it's not supported. Check the mailing list archives > > to be sure. > > I've done extensive checking and can't find it anywhere, although I was > hoping there was a way. There are quite some articles, but mostly "not supported" messages. Search for "hp4400" or "4400c" in the sane-devel list archive. > > To be sure, remove the scanner driver: rmmod scanner > > Now load it again with the ids: > > modprobe scanner vendor=0x03f0 product=0x0705 > > Did that, at least I got some output now. sane-find-scanner gives me: > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0705) at /dev/usb/scanner0 > whether as root or user. More than I've ever gotten before. Ok. > > However, you'll still need a backend for the scanner. If there isn't > > anybody else, how about writing it yourself? If I read the archives > > correctly, it's a Umax scanner in reality. > > I think writing something like that is currently way above my level. > Although what it look like is I'll be taking a list of scanners supported by > Mandrake and going shopping in the near future and give this one to my son. > > Thanks very much for the assistance though, at least its found now. Bye, Henning
