(solved)Mustek BearPaw 1200 CU

Hello,

my Scanner Mustek BearPaw 1200 cu plus, which is supported according to Sane project, is not recognized.

What can I do?

Thanks

Andreas

[Oko]

Hello,

my Scanner Mustek BearPaw 1200 cu plus, which is supported according to Sane project, is not recognized.

What can I do?

Thanks

Andreas


Is it powered by USB or it has a powered cord? Somebody just offered me
Mustek 1200 UB for $5 and I refuse to buy since it is powered by USB instead of power.
I have 5 other scanners :D so I just wanted to get a cheap thing.
If it is USB powered I would just get a read of the thing.


Look the dmesg first. If the scanner is recognized by the kernel you may try to do one of
the following. Check for permissions and alter if needed.
Make sure you are in the saned group.

The following is very common on OpenBSD but I have not encountered on FreeBSD. USB driver
is not getting vendor and product name. Means that you have to disable
uscanner driver and get OS to recognize scanner as ugen device. Trivial to do in OpenBSD
using config utility but in FreeBSD you have to recompile the kernel to do something like that.


Then go to

/usr/local/etc/sane.d

Make sure that the backhands for Mustike are listed and uncommented in the file dll.conf (see the
web-site for the backhands)

Make sure that the particular scanner is listed in mustak.conf with the vendor name,
product name and all other cra*p. If not read the vendor name from the dmesg and add it.
I also noticed that there is a file mustik_usb.conf apparently for USB powered scanners.
If you have USB powered scanner you may try to edit that file and add the product ID which you read from the dmesg. I just think that USB powered scanners a cr*p.


Another thing. The SANE has released backhands 1.19 two weeks ago. I am not sure if the
FreeBSD port is updated. I was one of the people who were testing OpenBSD port and SANE
1.19 is fully functional on OpenBSD. I am mentioning this some new scanners are
added in already existing sane-backhands and they also added new backhands for the new classes of scanners.

If I remember correctly some Mustike scanners are added also.


Best,
OKO

Thanks, it is solved.

Andreas