[UFO Chicago] Memorex 6136u Scanner

[Matthew T. Gibbs]

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jay F Shachter <jay at m5.chicago.il.us>
> To: Matthew T. Gibbs <mtgibbs at yahoo.com>
> Cc: ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:18:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] Memorex 6136u Scanner
>
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Matthew T. Gibbs would write on
> Wed Jun 17 10:11:20 2009:
>
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>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Jay F Shachter <jay at m5.chicago.il.us>
>>> To: ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us
>>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 5:26:19 PM
>>> Subject: [UFO Chicago] Memorex 6136u Scanner
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to get a Memorex 6136u scanner working on SuSE
>>> 10.3, or on any dialect of Linux, or on any free operating system?
>>> 
>> 
>> Did you check the SANE project?
>> 
>> <http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-MEMOREX>
>> 
>> Looks like you're probably out of luck unless you want to write a driver for it.
>> 
>> Matt
>>
>
>
> There are some dialects of Microsoft Windows that are able to access a
> Memorex 6136u scanner.  Is there an equivalent program to
> "ndiswrapper" for scanner devices?

Not that I'm aware of off hand.

> If not, there a way to access the scanner thru wine or wineconsole?

Wine does not do anything with drivers; it is merely a fancy translation layer.  So, you're probably still out of luck.  When I had to use my Visioneer scanner I did it though a Windows virtual machine.  My Brother multifunction machine has drivers for Linux.  It seems that scanners and non-postscript/PCL/HP/Brother printers are still not very well supported in Linux because many of them use complicated, non-standard, proprietary drivers that are only available for Windows and maybe OS X.  I bought my Brother multifunction machine because it was on sale and because it specifically has Linux support.  HP also has excellent Linux support.  If you only need to scan a few things you might want to just go to a copy shop; otherwise you might want to look into buying/acquiring a different scanner.

Matt