Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-11 Thread Christian Hiris
On Friday 11 June 2004 05:24, Rob wrote: crw-rw 1 root operator 243, 255 Jun 6 14:10 usb crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 243, 0 Jun 6 14:10 usb0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 243, 1 Jun 6 14:10 usb1 crw-rw 1 root operator 243, 2 Jun 6 14:10 usb2

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-11 Thread Christian Hiris
On Friday 11 June 2004 00:53, Guillermo García-Rojas wrote: Same problem I had last month. What I did? I comment out the line: device uscanner on my kernel and installed libUSB. My Scanner worked for 2 or 3 times and now it doesn't work anymore. I have FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Rob
Hi, Here is my progress so far: 1) I had to create a number of /dev/usbX devices (X = 1, 2 , 3). 2) Then the HP 5200C is detected by sane-find-scanner 3) I gave myself permission in /dev to usbX and uscanner0. As a user I then can do: $ xscanimage hp:/dev/uscanner0 Indeed, this works; I get the

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: even get the image file. But then the problems start. A second scan seems to hang (well, how long am I supposed to wait?). I killed the app, restarted it; again hanging. But I was patientafter 5 or 10 minutes suddently the window popped up. I clicked on

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Rob
Olaf Hoyer wrote: Just checked some archives to get the grasp... Well, on the german lists we had this discussion about scanner compatibility some time ago, and back then I tested our Scanner @work (also a 5200c) with my notebook. Could you give me a pointer to this discussion? Since I do

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: Olaf Hoyer wrote: Just checked some archives to get the grasp... Well, on the german lists we had this discussion about scanner compatibility some time ago, and back then I tested our Scanner @work (also a 5200c) with my notebook. Could you give me a

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare! = (VIA USB problem?)

2004-06-10 Thread Nicholas Jackson
Rob, Does your motherboard use a VIA chip for its USB? From what I have heard, many VIA USB implementations from a few years ago were very buggy, particularly with scanners. I have an old Asus A7V motherboard that works fine with a USB keyboard and mouse through a KVM (I'm using it now) but on

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Christian Hiris
On Thursday 10 June 2004 13:15, Rob wrote: Olaf Hoyer wrote: I think the warm-up of the device is a bit slow, before it actually will do something. I find it so terribly slow in comparison to its operation on Windows, that I think it's not the HP scanner, but the software, or the way I

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Guillermo García-Rojas
Same problem I had last month. What I did? I comment out the line: device uscanner on my kernel and installed libUSB. My Scanner worked for 2 or 3 times and now it doesn't work anymore. I have FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE Scanner: USB Generic Flatbed Scanner On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:38:41 +0200,

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare! = (VIA USB problem?)

2004-06-10 Thread Rob
Nicholas Jackson wrote: Rob, Does your motherboard use a VIA chip for its USB? Thanks for the suggestion. I'm sort of aware of these VIA vs. USB trouble. A friend of mine has a mass-storage stick for USB, but his FreeBSD hangs when unmounting this device. He has a VIA chip. I don't so the

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-10 Thread Rob
Christian Hiris wrote: Scenario I. 1. Scanner attached to /dev/usb1. 2. Run xsane, xscanimage and friends under an unprivileged user. 3. Don't want to pass the [driver:/device] parameter to your scanner app. What happens? The initialization code steps thru the usb devices until it finds a device

Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-09 Thread Rob
Hi, I've been using FreeBSD for many years now; usually sticking closely to the Stable updates. I'm aware of some the do-it-yourself style with setting up my routers, nameservers, webservers, printer servers etc. All of this was reasonably well documented and meanwhile I learned something about

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-09 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: I have an HP ScanJet 5200C; or better I claimed it in our lab from one of my Windows collegues. I've been struggling with sane, sane-find-scanner and its family commands in the back/front-ends. Details needed. Does FreeBSD detect the scanner as a scanner device, or

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-09 Thread Rob
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: I have an HP ScanJet 5200C; or better I claimed it in our lab from one of my Windows collegues. I've been struggling with sane, sane-find-scanner and its family commands in the back/front-ends. Details needed. Does FreeBSD detect the scanner as

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-09 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: The scanner is connected via USB. I unplugged it, plugged it back again. This is what I get in the console: uscanner0: at uhub1 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected uscanner0: detached uscanner0: Hewlett-Packard HP ScanJet 5200C, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2 Okay, I think

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-09 Thread Rob
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: The scanner is connected via USB. I unplugged it, plugged it back again. This is what I get in the console: uscanner0: at uhub1 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected uscanner0: detached uscanner0: Hewlett-Packard HP ScanJet 5200C, rev 1.00/1.00,

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-09 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: This is exactly the point where I get confused. # cat /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf | grep -v ^# usb 0x03f0 0x0401 /dev/uscanner0 # sane-find-scanner -v [...] checking /dev/uscanner0... open ok, but vendor and product could NOT be identified found USB scanner

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-09 Thread Rob
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: This is exactly the point where I get confused. # cat /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf | grep -v ^# usb 0x03f0 0x0401 /dev/uscanner0 # sane-find-scanner -v [...] checking /dev/uscanner0... open ok, but vendor and product could NOT be identified

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-09 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: # usbdevs -v Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), Intel(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 powered port 2 powered # Well that's weird. Do you have usbd_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf? I don't see why the scanner isn't listed

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-09 Thread Rob
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rob wrote: # usbdevs -v Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x), Intel(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 powered port 2 powered # Well that's weird. What is your output here? Do you have usbd_enable=YES in

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-09 Thread Christian Hiris
On Thursday 10 June 2004 05:27, Rob wrote: dev/uscanner0... open ok, but vendor and product could NOT be identified found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/uscanner0 [...] Is your sane-backends installation up to date? # sane-config --version 1.0.14 # sane-config

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-09 Thread Rob
Christian Hiris wrote: On Thursday 10 June 2004 05:27, Rob wrote: dev/uscanner0... open ok, but vendor and product could NOT be identified found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/uscanner0 [...] Is your sane-backends installation up to date? # sane-config --version 1.0.14

Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare!

2004-06-09 Thread Rob
Christian Hiris wrote: On Thursday 10 June 2004 05:27, Rob wrote: dev/uscanner0... open ok, but vendor and product could NOT be identified found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/uscanner0 [...] I have made some progress just now. I did a listing of /dev/usb* and found only