How to use SANE / USB scanners on Solaris 10?

Question

I would like to use a SANE-enabled USB scanner (Mustek BearPaw 1200F) on Solaris 10, but haven't yet managed to make it work.
I gather that on Solaris 10, there's a "libusb" library in "/opt/sfw/lib" and a "sane-find-scanner" program in "/opt/sfw/bin", that seems to look for USB scanners. It finds the "libusb", but doesn't find my scanner.
My scanner is on a USB hub connected to a USB port on the mainboard. The "usba" driver is running, and other USB devices seem to work.
I looked on the Internet and found some descriptions using the "ugen" kernel driver. I added a driver descriptor for the interface node that I suspected to be the scanner, and indeed, dmesg and prtconf report a valid "ugen0" device, and ugen creates various driver nodes for the USB interface node.
But how do I go from there? I have not the slightest clue.

Answer 1

This is a real old post, however I got a very similar scanner (Mustek 1200 UB) which I got working on Solaris 10, so I thought I'd list what I did in order to get it to work (I also managed to get an Epson Perfection 1250 to work using the same method). I used the sane packages available on the Solaris companion cd, and installed them prior to getting started. So, first off we need to see if Solaris is recognizing the scanner so in a terminal as root (su -) :
prtconf -D -v
you'll be looking for some reference to usb,device and note the value (I had to modify the profile of the terminal for scrolling from 500 lines to 2000 in order to see it). The value of the Mustek 1200 UB was usb55f,6.100
next we need to remove the old usb driver:
rem_drv ugen
now we'll add the driver with the Mustek values:
add_drv -i 'usb55f,6.100' ugen
now we want to ensure that there was an new entry created in /etc/driver_aliases for ugen with the Musktek info (note you need to ensure that " 's are used, for example, so you will need to edit the file. Example: ugen "usb55f,6.100"
Now we need to make a link from the Mustek to /dev/usbscanner (since sane uses either /dev/usbscanner or dev/usb/scanner), So:
ln -s /dev/usb/55f.6/0 /dev/usbscanner
then reboot the machine
Once rebooted in a terminal as root as root (su -):
/opt/sfw/bin/sane-find-scanner
you should see a reference to found usb scanner (vendor=0x055f, product=0x0006, chip=MA-1017) at libusb:/dev/usb:55f.6/0
you can then confirm it by :
/opt/sfw/bin/scanimage -L
you'll see a reference device 'mustek_usb:libusb:/dev/usb:55f.6/0' is a Mustek 1200 UB flatbed scanner
Finally it's time to do a test scan, so:
/opt/sfw/bin/xscanimage
I really suggest using xscanimage on the Mustek, as just using scanimage will give you a high pitch squealing noise. xscanimage does not. Also be advised that if you close xscanimage and then try to scan again, you get an i/o error. The solution to that is to simply hotplug the Mustek, by unplugging it from the usb port and plugging it back in.
Hope this helps some folks out.
Message was edited by:
mrmdls
corrected line concerning ad_drv ugen, as I had written the value for an epson 1250 scanner