Hi Pierre,
I managed wine to recognize my scanner because it is a scsi-over
parport one and there is the ppscsi driver for Linux. I have a patch
for wine which traces the scsi-commands sent to the scanner. This is
the easiest thing because you can use the SCSI-Support of SANE. If it
is another parport protocol you may try to use the windows portmonitor
(I don't remember where to get it, search for it) and trace the data
that is sent over the parport. But I would suggest opening your scanner
and writing down the types of the chips that are used. Then ask the
group or search the web for specs of these chips. Probably you get
information about the protocol this way.
Karsten
Pierre Abbat schrieb:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Sebastien Sable wrote:
> >You need to know the protocol of the driver or in the
> worst case you
> >need a working windows driver to reverse engineer...
> Although if you
> >really have no idea of how to write a driver, I am not
> sure you will
> >be able to do it.
>
> If I need to reverse engineer the driver, do I need any
> special hardware? I
> know someone with a data line monitor, but this is a
> parallel-port scanner.
>
> How do I find the protocol? I asked Memorex for the
> technical specs and they
> told me it's not designed for Unix, which is a silly
> answer.
>
> phma
>
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