[sane-devel] Scanimage can't find scanner

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Leslie Jensen wrote:
> I'm on a FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE with an EPSON V500
> 
> I've installed:
> epkowa-2.11.0_2     The sane-epkowa driver for FreeBSD
> sane-backends-1.0.20_4 API for access to scanners, digitals camera, 
> frame grabbers
> sane-frontends-1.0.14_5 Tools for access to scanners, digitals camera, 
> frame grabbe

As documented[1], the V500 needs a non-free plugin before the epkowa 
backend supports it.  Seeing that the plugin is only available for 
GNU/Linux based distributions, I doubt that it'll work on FreeBSD.

[1] http://sane.alioth.debian.org/lists/sane-backends-external.html#S-EPKOWA

Hope this helps,
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