I’ve got a Canon scanner that hasn’t had drivers released since Vista. I might be able to get it to work by switching to 32-bit Windows, but I figured I’d see if I could use a raspberry pi first. CanoScan 1670u

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I didn’t even see the model page for that one lol.

      Unless there’s a driver wrapper, you’d still need Linux drivers AFAIK.

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Not directly, no. They’re completely different architectures. You may be able to emulate x86 on a Pi with QEMU and run Vista as a VM, but it’s going to be very, very slow (probably unusably so).

          Your best chance would be a ultra small form factor PC and try to get Vista running on that (if using Vista is the only way to interface with it.

          Have you tried hooking the scanner up to the Pi (running Raspbian), installing SANE, and checking if it has built-in drivers that work?

          • pelletbucket@lemm.eeOP
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            4 months ago

            I have not. The advice I’ve gotten is that I can just install any 32-bit Windows and it should work, but that seems like a pain in the ass

            • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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              4 months ago

              Yeah, just try seeing if SANE supports it out of the box. Someone else commented with a link showing it may have a compatible driver already.