Subject: Re: SANE w/parallel port scanner
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/26/1998 23:11:29
"David W. Talmage" wrote:
> 
> If you've managed to make sane-0.74 work with your parallel port scanner, I'd
> like to hear from you.  I've been trying to make xscanimage work with my
> Microtek V310 scanner.  All I can make it do is complain "Failed to open
> device `microtek2:/dev/lpt0': Invalid argument."  I've tried using "microtek"
> in place of "microtek2" and "lpa0" in place of "lpt0".  In all combinations, I
> get a comparable error message.  This happens whether I run xscanimage as
> myself or as root.

Are the devices configured into your kernel?
Do these device nodes actually exist?
Who is responsible for the packet, i.e. which NetBSD package master
is this assigned to? Does anybody know if this package does work at all?
:-)

  Guenther