Canon FB630P Parallel Scanner + USB-to-Parallel Adapter

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Canon FB630P Parallel Scanner + USB-to-Parallel Adapter

#1 Post by starhawk »

I have a Canon FB630P parallel-only scanner (it's old; someone gave it to me for free).

I want to use it with PeasyScan 2.6 on X-Slacko 1.1. I am using a generic USB-to-Parallel adapter that *should* be working (I'm not 100% sure that it is) in order to connect it to my laptop, which is much too new for a parallel port.

I found this thread and followed the directions in muggins' post about 3/4 of the way through the thread. No joy.

What do I do?

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#2 Post by starhawk »

Nobody...?

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#3 Post by starhawk »

:cry: :cry: :cry:

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#4 Post by jp734 »

Hmm, try downloading a firmware for you scanner and edit /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf

look for this line:
# Change to the fully qualified filename of your firmware file, if
# firmware upload is needed by the scanner
firmware /usr/share/sane/snapscan/u96v121.bin

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#5 Post by starhawk »

I'm not sure where even to look for that -- can you point me to a place that might have it?

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#6 Post by jp734 »

Well...I would start at canon's website. I wouldn't know myself. Just have to search

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#7 Post by starhawk »

*sigh* I guess I'll wait for rcrsn51. He knows this stuff real well.

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#8 Post by starhawk »

rcrsn51, are you still around? I could really use your help here!

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#9 Post by jp734 »

Hi starhawk - I tried searching for your firmware but unfortunately, Canon's Website didn't have it. They only had drivers for Windows 95 and Windows 98 but NO firmware. If you want to download the driver and look maybe they had the firmware bundled on the package, you can try.

Here is the link:
http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/support/c ... ndSoftware

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Re: Canon FB630P Parallel Scanner + USB-to-Parallel Adapter

#10 Post by rcrsn51 »

starhawk wrote:I have a Canon FB630P parallel-only scanner. I am using a generic USB-to-Parallel adapter
Go to /etc/sane.d and open the file dll.conf in a text editor. UNcomment the line "canon_pp".

However this driver wants to talk directly to a parallel port and you are connecting through a USB adapter. So I doubt if it will work.

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#11 Post by starhawk »

Ah :) I see the forum neglected to inform me of your arrival. That's not very nice, now is it?

That line *has* been uncommented, alas it was not enough.

Is there more I can do, or should I give up?

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starhawk wrote:Is there more I can do, or should I give up?

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starhawk wrote:I give up
...is apparently the appropriate answer :(

Oh well.

Now where'd I leave my can of Thread-B-Gon? :P

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Re: Canon FB630P Parallel Scanner + USB-to-Parallel Adapter

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rcrsn51 wrote:However this driver wants to talk directly to a parallel port and you are connecting through a USB adapter. So I doubt if it will work.
starhawk wrote:Is there more I can do, or should I give up?
Connect the scanner to a computer with a parallel port.

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#15 Post by starhawk »

Don't have one that's good enough to run Linux. Closest match is a 586 laptop.

Besides, I'd really like to avoid having to sneakernet between systems...

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