Q: porting driver for USB scanner - where to start?
Ryan Underwood
nemesis-lists at icequake.net
Sun Jan 30 22:19:29 CST 2005
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:12:46AM +0100, Heiko Nardmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I want to write a linux driver for my USB scanner which is currently not yet
> supported by sane. So I wonder where to start; where do I find detailed
> information about the Windows driver interface, esp. for USB scanners. I want
> to know which interface a driver has to offer to Windows and which
> functionality the API has to offer.
You will probably have to use a USB sniffer application under Windows to
deduce the command set first. Many different ones exist, and install as
a filter USB driver so they can log the data going to and from the
scanner.
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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>
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