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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 30 May 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> David Moberg wrote:
>
> > I know that libusb (for user-space USB drivers) works on BL3.4,
> > because I used a statically compiled version of a libusb program to
> > successfully access a digital camera in BL3.4.
>
> According to the SANE FAQ, SANE can use libusb to talk to virtually
> any USB scanner. So if your scanner is USB, that problem (kernel
> compatibility) is solved. The main problem is deciding on which SANE
> binary to use.

What is libusb?

> > From the linuxpackages list of SANE packages, I see that the latest
> available binary is for SW91. Time to download and see how many
> dependencies it has.

Glibc 9.1 seems to require a 2.4.X kernel.


> David