[Hp3300backend-devel] Re: Question about niash

[Bertrik S. <be...@zo...>]

Ottavio Campana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been reading the manpage sane-niash and I saw that the driver 
> supports these devices:
> 
> MANUFACTURER:    MODEL:          USB ID:
>        ---------------  --------------  ---------
>        Agfa             Snapscan Touch  06BD-0100 (1)(a)
>        Hewlett-Packard  Scanjet 3300c   03F0-0205 (1)(a)(b)
>        Hewlett-Packard  Scanjet 3400c   03F0-0405 (2)(b)
>        Hewlett-Packard  Scanjet 4300c   03F0-0305 (2)(a)
> 
> Well, I've got a hp scanjet3400C, but lsusb give me
> 
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 047b:1002 Silitek Corp. HP ScanJet 4300c Parallel 
> Port
> 
> Do you know if sane niash work with my scanner? The vendorid and 
> productid are differents from the ones in the manpage. Giving a look at 
>  /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap I can see
> 
> libusbscanner 0x0003 0x03f0 0x0405 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00    0x00 
> 0x00 0x00 0x00000000
> 
> Tge product and vendor ids are different, and hotplug doesn't do 
> anything. Is my scanner different fom the supported ones?
> 
> Thank you for you help.

Your scanner will not work directly with the backend, because the
niash backend currently does not recognise the scanner as something
that it supports (usb ids are not supported).
But I think there is a very good chance that it can be made to work
with relatively little work. A requirement is that the niash chip
inside your scanner is either a niash00012, 13, 14 or 19.

Unfortunately I won't have time this week to make the change.

Kind regards,
Bertrik