From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:53:39 -0800 Message-ID: <13426df10911250853g540e76bk48bd9adfce140808@mail.gmail.com> From: ron minnich To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Scanners Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9fd1309e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Andreas Zell wrote: > The scanner ist connect via 1G ethernet. > On the Touchscreen =A0is an Option "Scan to network". > The scanner scans direct to a cifs share (aquarella on plan9). > No need for spezial software except a Cifs Server. > The scanner use smbclient. That's neat. It makes sense too, using ethernet almost always seems a better deal than using USB. It's so cheap to put a network stack and ethernet into these devices, and the network stack is doubtless less software than a USB stack ... ron