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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Info on device driver programming needed
Date: 6 Nov 1995 09:08:04 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <47jdhn$opb@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Martin Butkus <y0001415@ws.rz.tu-bs.de> wrote:

--I need some pointers to info about device driver programming. 
--The thing is, I've found a device driver for my scanner written
--for BSDI 2.0 (it's a Mustek Paragon 600 BTW) and would like to 
--port it to FreeBSD. 

Is this a SCSI device, or does it have a special interface?


+I think there's a scanner driver in FreeBSD-current.  Perhaps you can
+use this one as a template.