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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Q: porting driver for USB scanner - where to start?
From:       Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists () icequake ! net>
Date:       2005-01-31 4:19:29
Message-ID: 20050131041929.GG31237 () dbz ! icequake ! net
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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@icequake.net>

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