I worked on the backend for this scanner remotely, but I've never actually touched one. I had no idea it did this modeswitching.
allan On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:49 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi! > > I am currently trying to get the Canon P-215 document scanner > working with SANE backends 1.0.24 from Debian unstable, the > scanner is reported to have basic support. > > The scanner integrates a USB mass storage device to store drivers > and applications for Windows and MacOS allowing the scanner to > be used without the hassle of dealing with installation media. > > Thus, when connecting the scanner to my Linux box, it's shown > as a mass storage device with a different device ID (0x1647 > instead of 0x1646 which is the device ID listed in /etc/sane.d/ > canon_dr.conf). > > I have been playing around with usb_modeswitch to set the scanner > into scanner mode, but without success. > > Does anyone know the proper call to usb_modeswitch to invoke the > scanner mode? Since the scanner has been reported to work with > SANE, I suppose someone knows how to do that :). > > Cheers, > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz at debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/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"
