USB scanner device support

Matthias Play matthias_play at gmx.net
Tue May 19 02:45:56 PDT 2015


Hi Predrac,

thanks for your extensive explanation.

My problem was that I did not install SANE because I thought the device 
driver needs to be existent in the kernel.

After installing SANE the scanner is functional and I can use xsane for 
image scans.

Regards
Matthias

On 19.05.2015 00:59, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
> Matthias Play wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> has scanner support been dropped in the past?
>>
>> My scanner is not recognized, the kernel message is:
>>
>> May 17 14:26:55 MisterX kernel: ugen3.2: <Canon> at usbus3
>> May 17 14:26:55 MisterX root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x04a9 product
>> 0x2206 bus uhub3
>>
>> I have a Canon N 650U scanner and want to be able to scan using my
>> DragonFly installation.
>>
>> What are my options to get it running?
>>
>> Regards
>> Matthias
>
> Hi Matthias,
>
> I don't use DF on the desktop but I just checked /etc/sane.d on my
> OpenBSD 5.7 with the following version of sane-backend
>
> predrag at oko$ pkg_info sane-backends
> Information for inst:sane-backends-1.0.24p2
>
> Quick greping reveals that the specific product is missing.
>
> predrag at oko$ grep 0x04a9 *
> canon630u.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x2204
> canon_dr.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1601
> canon_dr.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1602
> canon_dr.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1603
> canon_dr.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1604
> canon_dr.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1606
> canon_dr.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1607
> canon_dr.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1608
> canon_dr.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1609
> canon_dr.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x160a
> canon_dr.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x160b
> canon_dr.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x2222
> genesys.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x2213
> genesys.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x221c
> genesys.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x2228
> genesys.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1904
> genesys.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1909
> genesys.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1905
> genesys.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1906
> genesys.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1907
> genesys.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x190a
> genesys.conf:usb 0x04a9 0x1906
>
> If I was you I would try editing canon630u.conf which is on your machine
> probably located in
>
> /usr/local/etc/sane.d/
>
> usb 0x04a9 0x2206
>
> After you add it reboot the machine and give it a try. If that doesn't
> work try editing canon_dr.conf with the same line and reboot.
>
> I checked sane-backends page and your scanner indeed appears to be
> supported
>
> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html#S-CANON-DR
>
> IIRC that is one of those cheap scanners without power supply just using
> USB to power up. Those are really iffy on any system. For the record
> I have been using Epson Perfection 1670 which requires firmware for the
> past 8 years on OpenBSD and I couldn't be happier.
>
> Best,
> Predrag
>



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