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Old 07-22-2004, 12:27 PM   #1
raghu mitra
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I am an student of computer science .I own a scanner hpscanjet3670 .But i dont have neceassary drivers for my hardware in linux so i thought of writing the drivers myself and contributing to open source community.I am in a confusion HOW TO START .I am highly prevelaged if i could get a solution for my problem or are there any experts intrested to solve my problem.
 
Old 07-22-2004, 02:26 PM   #2
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Raghu -

here is an online O'Reilly book on writing device drivers that will help you:

http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/


(yes, it's a licensed publication - from O'Reilly's OpenBooks project:
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/)

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