Subject: Re: Vuegscan 620S
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baea.com.au>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/10/1999 08:49:57
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Brett Lymn wrote:
> According to Berndt Josef Wulf:
> >
> >Many thanks for your information. I didn't relize that the ss* devices
> >were indeed specific to the Mustek and HP scanners.
> >
>
> Neither did I until it bit me. At least when you tried accessing the
> scanner didn't cause a kernel panic like it used to :-)
>
so thats why I had to switch to uk* from ss* for my UMAX scanner! Yes,
that seems like a better default, because when people go looking for
scanner software, they should find SANE in the packages collection and
then they're puzzled (like us) as to why it didn't work.
-Dan