[NTLUG:Discuss] SANE XSANE - don't want to reinvent wheel

[Chris Cox]

Fred James wrote:

> No, actually it was purchased to work with a MS system, and it does.
> I just thought about trying it on Linux as an after thought.
> The UMax is so old (pre Win98 - serial I/O, for sure) that I thought 
> surely no problem (umax and umaxpp are both in /usr/bin/xsane)
>
> So what you are saying is there isn't any "special set up", if xsane 
> doesn't come up with the device then it isn't supported?   Is that it?
> Understand, I haven't done any kind of set up - nada. 

I know that I had to do some tricks to get sane to see my Epson Perf. 2450
scanner (the versions of sane see it fine though).  So... no, I'm not saying
if sane doesn't see it that it can't be made to work, however, those two
links I posted will tell you the plight of the UMax 600P and seem to 
indicate
problems with some HP Officejet scanners... and NO MENTION whatsoever of 
using
it via JetDirect over ethernet.... well, actually I think it does say
something, but I didn't see your exact model.