[sane-devel] Re: modules/microtek

[Karsten Festag]

Hi Moby,

the Scanmaker 5700 is not yet supported by SANE. But there may be a chance to 
get it to work via the firewire interface. I have no experiences with this, 
but I think there is a kernel module which makes a firewire device appearing 
as a generic SCSI device (/dev/sg....). Then you should be able to detect the 
scanner with sane-find-scanner and if we are lucky the scanner uses commands 
similar to the microtek2 scanners. 
Perhaps somebody in the SANE mailing list can give some hints concerning the 
firewire setup?
If sane-find-scanner detects your scanner please follow the instructions in 
the manpage and send me a logfile.

Regards,

Karsten


On Thursday 02 January 2003 17:44, you wrote:
> I am running Red Hat 8.0 with a 2.4.19-opp18 kernel.
> I have a Microtek Scanmaker 5700. I can't detect it
> from
> the USB or from the PCMCIA slot where I have a Belkin
> F5U512 firewire card. I have installed the sane
> backend
> package. Could you tell me how to get Sane to detect
> the scanner or suggest some modules to load.
>
>                Regards,
>                       moby
>
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