Hello all,<br>I've just joined this mailing list, having used Ubuntu 10.04 for a couple of months after 'rediscovering' Linux on an Open University course.<br><br>I have an old HP C3180 all-in-one Printer Scanner Copier, which no longer prints, but I still want to retain as a scanner. The SANE database online lists it as 'unsupported', so having some (mostly high-level) programming experience I thought I might try to write some drivers for it.<br>
I can't get hold of a reference manual for the chipset used, nor find any information about drivers for Linux anywhere else online.<br><br>First off, does anyone else have any information/code which might help me?<br>
It sounds like an interesting and educational project for me to do on my own if necessary, but I don't know exactly where to start at the moment. I've read the page linked on the SANE site (can't remember the author at the moment) about capturing commands from the datastream when the device is accessed under Windows, but I don't really know how to go about this or what software to use.<br>
All I have at the moment is the drivers for Windows XP - they might work under Windows7, I haven't tried them on that yet.<br><br>Can someone tell me how to proceed now please.<br><br>BTW I've done some assembly language programming many years ago, but
that was 6502 stuff on an old BBC Micro, and my knowledge of modern
systems at a low level, and PCs in particular, is limited.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Robert Charlesworth<br><br><br>