[H-GEN] Scanners

[Tony Nugent]

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On Sun Apr 14 2002 at 18:28, "Michael Anthon" wrote:

> > Does anyone know of scanner that works with Linux Red Hat 7.2 ?
> 
> I can tell you the opposite of what you are asking.... DO NOT BUY A SCANNER
> FROM CANON if you want it to work.  I know people are working on reverse
> engineering the Canon scanner USB protocol, but Canon don't support the
> effort, don't provide documentation on how to drive the scanners etc.  I
> know they have basic alpha level drivers working, but it's real bleeding
> edge stuff.

Same for canon usb webcams, they won't support them for linux.

> Cheers
> Michael

Cheers
Tony

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