As you know, I have been developing a magicolor backend for KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 1690MF devices (possibly also for other devices, but I don't have access to any other KONICA MINOLTA device that uses the same protocol -- The bizhub devices use a different protocol).
In my view, it is now in a state so that it can be included in sane-backends (I'm using it regularly with xsane). The git patches can be found at: http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~reinhold/sane/magicolor_backend_patches/ -) The first two (0001 and 0002) are for the sanei_usb functionality already send yesterday, -) 0003 is the actual backend, -) 0004 fixes some compiler warnings in byteorder.h, and -) 0005 includes only the changes from running autoreconf (i.e. no manual code changes!) The backend uses libsnmp (configure check added!) to optionally auto-detect a LAN-connected magicolor device. I have set the timeout to a very low value (a little more than 1 second!), so all systems without a magicolor scanning in the network are not held up by the SNMP auto-detection of the magicolor devices. On the other hand, if the network is really slow, this might mean that we miss an SNMP response that takes longer than 1 second! What do you think of this backend? Cheers, Reinhold -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinhold at kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org
