Greetings again, Here is the progress I have made:
The sketchy results of sane-find-scanner -v -v follow. NEC drivers for Win 95, 98, ME, 2000 (apparently), and MacOS 9.x (they say X, but not true) are at <http://www.nevt.co.jp/scan/download/800u3.html>. The filenames are English even though this is a Japanese page. The files are the "8u3" files. At the bottom of the page is a link to "MultiReaderPetiScan800U2" which is the previous version of the PC drivers. As far as I can tell, without further digging into the guts of the scanner, there are two chips which say JIC (?) ES52099S 9919-LHIJ I was not able to find data on this chip. And Winbond W24512AJ-15 919SA290732601CE Chip specs: <http://www.chipdocs.com/pndecoder/datasheets/WBOND/W24512AJ-15.html> It occurred to me that this scanner will run off another computer I have access to, but only in MacOS9. Might there more data that I can access from a computer that will actually run the scanner, versus this laptop with which I want to ultimately run the scanner, but only uses MacOSX? Thanks everyone for your help. Please advise me on the next step I can take in this project. Allan <device descriptor of 0x0475/0x0100 at 003:002-0475-0100-ff-00> bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.00 bDeviceClass 255 bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 255 bMaxPacketSize0 8 idVendor 0x0475 idProduct 0x0100 bcdDevice 1.00 iManufacturer 0 () iProduct 0 () iSerialNumber 0 () bNumConfigurations 1 <configuration 0> bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 39 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 () bmAttributes 128 () MaxPower 500 mA <interface 0> <altsetting 0> bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 3 bInterfaceClass 255 bInterfaceSubClass 255 bInterfaceProtocol 255 iInterface 0 () <endpoint 0> bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x01 (out 0x01) bmAttributes 2 (bulk) wMaxPacketSize 8 bInterval 0 ms bRefresh 0 bSynchAddress 0 <endpoint 1> bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x82 (in 0x02) bmAttributes 2 (bulk) wMaxPacketSize 8 bInterval 0 ms bRefresh 0 bSynchAddress 0 <endpoint 2> bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x83 (in 0x03) bmAttributes 2 (bulk) wMaxPacketSize 64 bInterval 0 ms bRefresh 0 bSynchAddress 0 <trying to find out which USB chip is used> checking for GT-6801 ... this is not a GT-6801 (bcdUSB = 0x100) checking for GT-6816 ... this is not a GT-6816 (bDeviceClass = 255, bInterfaceClass = 255) checking for MA-1017 ... this is not a MA-1017 (bDeviceClass = 255, bInterfaceClass = 255) checking for MA-1015 ... this is not a MA-1015 (bDeviceSubClass = 0x0) checking for MA-1509 ... this is not a MA-1509 (bcdUSB = 0x100) checking for LM983[1,2,3] ... this is not a LM983x (bEndpointAddress = 0x1, bmAttributes = 0x2, wMaxPacketSize = 0x8, bInterval = 0x0) checking for GL646 ... this is not a GL646 (bDeviceClass = 255, bInterfaceClass = 255) checking for GL646_HP ... this is not a GL646_HP (bcdUSB = 0x100) checking for GL660+GL646 ... this is not a GL660+GL646 (bDeviceClass = 255, bInterfaceClass = 255) checking for GL841 ... this is not a GL841 (bcdUSB = 0x100) checking for ICM532B ... check 2, this is not a ICM532B (bcdUSB = 0x100) <Couldn't determine the type of the USB chip> found USB scanner (vendor=0x0475, product=0x0100) at libusb:003:002-0475-0100-ff-00
