[Glastonbury] scanner wid linux

Martin Wheeler mwheeler at startext.co.uk
Fri Dec 23 14:45:54 GMT 2005


On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Bob Frog wrote:

> I'm sure most Linux would work with scanner with SANE, with 2.6+ kernels

Not necessarily so.

A lot depends on the type of connection -- parallel or USB.

For example, my own scanner has NO drivers for parallel connection; but if 
it were USB, there'd be no problem.

[And no, I'm NOT smart enough to re-write the drivers.]
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