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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Scanner driver [ was Re: Info on device driver programming needed ]
Date: 13 Nov 1995 04:35:04 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <486hto$4in@helena.MT.net>
References: <87ohur79ci.fsf@malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de> <47kj9k$55v@times.tfs.com> <874twhwd57.fsf@malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de> <484r9i$jdt@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <484r9i$jdt@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>>   JE> +I think there's a scanner driver in FreeBSD-current.  Perhaps you can
>>   JE> +use this one as a template.
>>
>
>If it's SCSI, perhaps Kenneth Stailey's (sp?) pint package is more
>appropriate for you.  The last incarnation i've seen was
>
>	pint-0.5d.tar.gz
>
>Ask archie for it.  It will require tweaking in order to adapt it to
>the FreeBSD driver interface, but it shouldn't be too much work.  I've
>never been starting however (due to lack of time).

I actually started messing with it last week, and put it down for lack
of time.  I picked it up again yesterday (Saturday), and I've gotten a
pretty good start on doing the conversion of the code to FreeBSD.  I'm
hoping to finish up the initial work early this week since I need it for
a scanner at work.  However, my scanner is an HP 3C, and the pint stuff
only 'officially' supports the HP 2 series.  Assuming they aren't too 
different I hope to have it working by the end of the week.


Nate
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