On 19-Jul-00 Roberto A. F. Almeida wrote:
> I have a Genius ColorPage EP, which is actually a Microtek V300 parallel
> port scanner packed by Genius. I checked the FCC ID and found that it was
> made by Microtek, and the both scanners have the same specifications.
>
> I installed ppscsi, changed sane source code so that it would detect my
> scanner as a V300, but I still couldn't get it to work. I can insmod ppscsi,
> onscsi, and the scanner is correctly detected, but it locks when I try to
> scan anything with scanimage.
>
> I think maybe the problem is with the firmware, but this is wild guess. I'm
> a little clueless here: what is a firmware? :) Can I download a new version
>>from somewhere and put it in my scanner? How do I do this? Or should I set
> SANE_DEBUG_MICROTEK2=30 and publish the results?
The firmware is the software embedded in your scanner. When you insmod the
ppscsi modules, it will be listed in your /var/log/messages. If not then try
"sgcheck" or "cat /proc/scsi/scsi".
i've been told you need at least firmware 1.60, because the versions before
that one don't function very well.
There was a mailing about firmware 1.60 which was made available.
What I don't know about this is if it is possible to read the firmware and then
make it available to other scanners. If that's possible i would want to give
that a try, my scanner has firmware 2.10.
> One other question: you said you tried your scanner with a SCSI card. My
> scanner is a parallel port model, but it has a third port (one for printer,
> one for the computer, and the third) undocumented. Is is a SCSI port? Yes, I
> have never seen a SCSI port before. :)
The Microtek2 scanner i now have came with a cheap adaptec isa card. The
microtek(1) scanner i had and still have was a parport model. It surprised me
that the cables had the same 25-pin plug on the computerside and sort of the
same 50-pin plug on the scanner-side. I tried it first with the scsi-card, and
then with the parport cable of the old scanner. I'm lazy, so i didn't change it
yet.
The third port on my scanner has 15 pins, but i don't know what it is for, i
have never used it.
Marcel Pol
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http://mpol.dhs.org
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