Hi, though I'm the maintainer of the microtek2 backend I cannot help you much with the SCSI-over-USB stuff. But Oliver Neukum <[email protected]> has done the linux 'microtek' kernel module and I think he can give you some useful hints if you ask him.
Regards, Karsten On Friday 06 June 2003 18:53, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:24:59AM -0700, David Alan Hjelle wrote: > > I've been trying to get my Microtek SlimScan C6 working on my Macintosh > > running Mac OS X 10.1.5. > > [...] > > > So, I did some research. Apparently, the microtek2 backend only > > supports USB kernel extensions and not libusb? What would it take to > > modify the code so that it would work? > > All these scanners are SCSI. The SCSI protocoll is only transported > over the USB in case of USB devices. So they use a kernel > SCSI-over-USB driver (called "microtek"). > > So you either need to port this Linux driver to MacOS X or do the > SCSI-over-USB logic in the backend itsself. Maybe the maintainer can > tell you more about how complicated this may be. > > Userland SCSI-over-USB is used at least in the ma1509 and the avison > backends. > > Bye, > Henning > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
