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#! rnews 1663 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!torn!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!bmerhc5e.bnr.ca!news From: Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortel.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Logitech Scanner Driver Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 17:34:16 +0000 Organization: Nortel Technology ( formerly Bell-Northern Research ) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32CBF198.41C67EA6@nortel.ca> References: <59hhtp$k0n@nntp1.best.com> <5a18l1$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> <32caf617.14991246@news.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: acart45d.bnr.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33522 Jan Setje-Eilers wrote: > Hmm perhaps this is what you are referring to with the asc and > gsc devices, but i had a Logitech ScanMan 32 (which i think spoke > very similar language to both the ScanMan+ and the ScanMan256, > both of them on a proprietary? bus-mouse looking card. That i > got to work (well short of decent scan-speed compensation) under > an ancient Linux kernel. .. you may be able to dig up that code, and I found an ALPHA version of this beastie at: ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/scanners It purportedly supports the scanman 256. Actually, I'm in the market for a hand scanner, too. I was considering a scanman 2000. Apparently this model connects via parallel port (?) Any info would be appreciated.. Cheers, Andrew (opinions are minem not Nortel's.)