Interface Board

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Only bi-directional parallel interface cards like the one coming with the Epson scanner (B808011,B80818*) are working. It's NOT working with normal parallel ports also not with ports in ECP or EPP mode.

Set it up as LPT2 and disable any other LPT2 port if needed.

BASE-Adress: 0x278
Interrupt: not used/needed (the driver is polling)
Cable-Type: Normal LPT cable. Make sure the select line is connected (Pin 17 on computer's side, Pin 36 on centronics side)

SANE Configuration

The driver needs direct hardware access. One possibility is to run (x)scanimage as root. In my opinion the better way is to set the sbit on the (x)scanimage executable. 

chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/scanimage
chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xscanimage

Modify the following configuration files:

/usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson.conf 

    0x278

/usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf 

# enable the next line if you want to allow access through the network:
#net
#apple
#canon
#coolscan
#dmc
epson
#hp
#microtek
#microtek2
#mustek
#pint
pnm
#qcam
#s9036
#snapscan
#tamarack
#umax

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