[sane-devel] medion scanner md 9458

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

Ok, thanks. I just tried this driver and it seems to be more promising.
Although I would appreciate if anybody can provide me with the
windows-firmware file this driver seems to need ... (the readme states it
is called gt680xfw.usb, but since I don't have windows...)

Franky

On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:50:01 +0100
Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 12:22:22PM +0100, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> > (system: redhat 7.2, 2.4.9-13 kernel)
> > I just bought this usb scanner (medion md 9458, an "aldi" scanner) but
> > I am not able to get it to work. When I do "/cat/proc/usb/devices" I
> > see the vendor type is 0x05d8 and the product is 0x4002.
> 
> That's the same as the Mustek 1200UB Plus and BearPaw 1200 CU. There
> is no SANE backend for these scanners. See
> http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/scanners.html#1200UBPLUS
> 
> > Now I've searched the
> > list and this seems to be the lifetec thingie. So I added the
> > following to my modules.conf: ptions scanner vendor=0x05d8
> > product=0x4002 and I tried:
> > 
> > /sbin/modprobe scanner vendor=0x05d8 product=0x4002
> 
> If you put the options in modules.conf you don't need them with
> modprobe. The scanner module can't detect this scanner, because...
> 
> > 5d8:4002 scanner.c: probe_scanner: Only two or three endpoints
> > supported. scanner.c: USB Scanner support registered.
> 
> It supports only two (bulk in, out) or three (bulk in, out, interrupt)
> endpoits. This scanner has only one endpoint (bulk in(?)).
> 
> There is a project for a similar scanner. The last time I tried the
> kernel module detected my scanner but I couldn't scan.
> http://www.btinternet.com/~salet/
> 
> Bye,
>   Henning
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