It is possible that this scanner is already supported by the hplip project. They produce a package of sane-compatible drivers, which might already come with your distro.
allan On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Robert Charlesworth <rhcharlesworth at googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > I've just joined this mailing list, having used Ubuntu 10.04 for a couple of > months after 'rediscovering' Linux on an Open University course. > > I have an old HP C3180 all-in-one Printer Scanner Copier, which no longer > prints, but I still want to retain as a scanner. The SANE database online > lists it as 'unsupported', so having some (mostly high-level) programming > experience I thought I might try to write some drivers for it. > I can't get hold of a reference manual for the chipset used, nor find any > information about drivers for Linux anywhere else online. > > First off, does anyone else have any information/code which might help me? > It sounds like an interesting and educational project for me to do on my own > if necessary, but I don't know exactly where to start at the moment. I've > read the page linked on the SANE site (can't remember the author at the > moment) about capturing commands from the datastream when the device is > accessed under Windows, but I don't really know how to go about this or what > software to use. > All I have at the moment is the drivers for Windows XP - they might work > under Windows7, I haven't tried them on that yet. > > Can someone tell me how to proceed now please. > > BTW? I've done some assembly language programming many years ago, but that > was 6502 stuff on an old BBC Micro, and my knowledge of modern systems at a > low level, and PCs in particular, is limited. > > Thanks, > Robert Charlesworth > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
