Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 08 October 2004 07:06 pm, Scarletdown wrote:
> I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of
> actually being able to use it.  It is connected to the parallel port,
> powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plugin for
> GIMP.  However, xsane is not able to see the scanner.  I just get a
> less than helpful "no devices available" message.
>
> What do I need to do to get this scanner working?  It is an Info
> Peripherals Image Reader Ultra, Model FB7.  The FCC I.D. is
> jsf-fb262, which Google and Jeeves searches show it to actually be an
> Avision AV260C.
>
> Any ideas what drivers I need for this scanner, and where to get
> them?

I dislike sounding so negative but a parallel port scanner is, afaik, 
very old technology. Some new scanners are so cheap, and supported by 
xsane..etc that the time/money you save by investing in a new scanner, 
usb, is worth the expense. If needed you can get a pci usb 2.0 card 
that works with Debian, and is fast. Parallel ports are relatively 
slow.
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Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-08 Thread Scarletdown
Jeff Golden wrote:
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:06:06 -0700, Scarletdown
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of
actually being able to use it.  It is connected to the parallel port,
powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plugin for
GIMP.  However, xsane is not able to see the scanner.  I just get a less
than helpful "no devices available" message.
What do I need to do to get this scanner working?  It is an Info
Peripherals Image Reader Ultra, Model FB7.  The FCC I.D. is jsf-fb262,
which Google and Jeeves searches show it to actually be an Avision AV260C.
Any ideas what drivers I need for this scanner, and where to get them?
   


Don't have one personally so I dont know but:
http://www.rocklinux-consulting.de/oss/avision/
was produced, as the first result, to the following google search:
parallel port scanners linux avision
 

Looks like this scanner won't work with Linux afterall.
http://www.rocklinux-consulting.de/oss/avision/faq.html

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Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-08 Thread Jeff Golden
> Don't have one personally so I dont know but:
> 
> http://www.rocklinux-consulting.de/oss/avision/
> 
> was produced, as the first result, to the following google search:
> parallel port scanners linux avision
> 

I apologize I read that wrong apparently they haven't been succesful
at a paralell version.

"Q: Does the Avision parallel scanners work?

A: No. I do not own a parallel-port-scanner and Avision refuses to
give me documentation about the parallel and USB protocol they use. I
got private eMails from other people who try to log and "decrypt" the
parallel-port-traffic, but there is no useable code, yet. "

Sorry about that...


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Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-08 Thread Brian Pack
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 23:06, Scarletdown wrote:
> I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of 
> actually being able to use it.  It is connected to the parallel port, 
> powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plugin for 
> GIMP.  However, xsane is not able to see the scanner.  I just get a less 
> than helpful "no devices available" message.
> 
> What do I need to do to get this scanner working?  It is an Info 
> Peripherals Image Reader Ultra, Model FB7.  The FCC I.D. is jsf-fb262, 
> which Google and Jeeves searches show it to actually be an Avision AV260C.
> 
> Any ideas what drivers I need for this scanner, and where to get them?

Have you looked up your scanner model at sane-project.org? They have
lists of what is (and is not) supported.

I have a Hewlett-Packard scanjet 4670. On the sane-project list, it is
unsupported, but sane knows there's a scanner of *some* type hooked up.
That's as far as it gets, though. Not worried about that one, though.
Scanner wasn't hooked up for any of my projects, anyway.



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Re: Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-08 Thread Jeff Golden
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:06:06 -0700, Scarletdown
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of
> actually being able to use it.  It is connected to the parallel port,
> powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plugin for
> GIMP.  However, xsane is not able to see the scanner.  I just get a less
> than helpful "no devices available" message.
> 
> What do I need to do to get this scanner working?  It is an Info
> Peripherals Image Reader Ultra, Model FB7.  The FCC I.D. is jsf-fb262,
> which Google and Jeeves searches show it to actually be an Avision AV260C.
> 
> Any ideas what drivers I need for this scanner, and where to get them?


Don't have one personally so I dont know but:

http://www.rocklinux-consulting.de/oss/avision/

was produced, as the first result, to the following google search:
parallel port scanners linux avision


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Parallel Port Scanner Support?

2004-10-08 Thread Scarletdown
I just recently hooked up my flatbed scanner to my system in hopes of 
actually being able to use it.  It is connected to the parallel port, 
powered up, and I have installed xsane as well as the sane plugin for 
GIMP.  However, xsane is not able to see the scanner.  I just get a less 
than helpful "no devices available" message.

What do I need to do to get this scanner working?  It is an Info 
Peripherals Image Reader Ultra, Model FB7.  The FCC I.D. is jsf-fb262, 
which Google and Jeeves searches show it to actually be an Avision AV260C.

Any ideas what drivers I need for this scanner, and where to get them?

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