[sane-devel] How far to go for the CanoScan LiDE 500F

2005-12-10 Thread Michael Roitzsch
Hi sane experts, Since the CanoScan LiDE 500F is still unsupported and I consider to buy such a thing, I would like to now, how much work is still missing on this. I have some usable programming skills, but I have no experience in reverse engineering USB protocols, so it would be nice, if

[sane-devel] How far to go for the CanoScan LiDE 500F

2005-12-10 Thread Pierre Willenbrock
Michael Roitzsch schrieb: Since the CanoScan LiDE 500F is still unsupported and I consider to buy such a thing, I would like to now, how much work is still missing on this. I have some usable programming skills, but I have no experience in reverse engineering USB protocols, so it would be

[sane-devel] How far to go for the CanoScan LiDE 500F

2005-12-10 Thread Michael Roitzsch
Hi Pierre, Since the CanoScan LiDE 500F is still unsupported and I consider to buy such a thing, I would like to now, how much work is still missing on this. Basic reflective scanning may work with only adding the usb-id and a new device definition to the backend. That sounds good

[sane-devel] How far to go for the CanoScan LiDE 500F

2005-12-10 Thread Pierre Willenbrock
Michael Roitzsch schrieb: I think these are the steps needed for full support: - acquire logs from windows scans Would that be possible from Mac OS X, too? I only have an old Win98 and I am not sure that the scanner will work there. Win98 should be fine. Thats where my logs are from. I

[sane-devel] How far to go for the CanoScan LiDE 500F

2005-12-10 Thread Michael Roitzsch
Hi, I think these are the steps needed for full support: - acquire logs from windows scans Would that be possible from Mac OS X, too? I only have an old Win98 and I am not sure that the scanner will work there. Win98 should be fine. Thats where my logs are from. Ok, if the driver will