[sane-devel] OS/2 device driver for HP7450C

[Franz Bakan]

Hi,

>The Scanjet 7450 is a normal 7400 and also identifies as such.
>
>If you connect is via SCSI to your OS/2 box it "should" work
>out-of-the-box. 

Unfortunately fork() is used in avision-code. So this has to be changed for
OS/2 first (not so complicated), like allready done for mustek, microtek2
and hp-backends. Otherwise it very likely won't work.
If your 7450C is connected via SCSI let me know and I could compile
a patched version and make it available for testing.

>But using USB is not that easy - I guess writing a kernel driver for
>OS/2 is not that easy
...

If it's USB, that's not so easy, indeed, but there is a guy in Japan
working on support for an epson-USB scanner
(and allready had some success). You could try to contact him.
(Look for usbscan.zip on HOBBES (hobbes.nmsu.edu) ).

Bye,
Franz