[Gllug] Advansys SCSI Host Adapter

John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Mon Dec 5 10:10:06 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 09:56 +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> On the subject of scanners,  has anyone yet produced a scanner which connect via
> either 100mbps or 1Gbps ethernet   - this would seem a very cheap way of
> interfacing the scanner to the computer ?  Presumably one would only then need
> a user-space program to drive it, ie  scanner commands sent via TCP/IP and the
> scan image returned.
That's a good idea.

Blueskying, you might be better thinking of a 'scan server' similar to a
print server.
Small embedded linux box with a USB (and/or parallel) port, plus network
interface running Sane network daemon
http://penguin-breeder.org/sane/saned/

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