Re: Newbie: How to work it?

justiny@newsguy.com
Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:09:59 -0800 (PST)

Yup. I've got one. (Great 'lil scanner for the price!) Someone was working
on this (it was near beta). They announced it on the list a few weeks ago.

However, I haven't seen any mention of it since.

**Related note**

Also, I'll do a SANE FAQ this weekend if no one else wants to.

At Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:28:11 -0500, you wrote
>Hello,
>
>I have a Microtek ScanMaker V310 parallel port scanner and am trying to
>figure out where to start to make this thing work. I realize that it is
>not officially supported, but I don't even know what I need to do to try to
>make it work. I have made the assumption that I need SCSI generic support
>compiled into my kernel, and that's all I really know. I don't know how to
>make the SCSI chain operate over the parallel port. I've compiled in
>PARPORT and PARIDE and all the IDE protocol modules, as well as the
>IDE-SCSI module. I've also compiled in the SCSI_PPA and SCSI_IMM modules.
>Is this the way to go about it? I was unable to find any specific
>information about what kernel support is needed by SANE.
>
>I'm running the 1.0 debian package and find-scanner is reporting nothing
>(except pnm devices) but I fear that it is not probing the parallel port at
>all. lsmod shows no parallel port modules being loaded. Am I completely
>going about this the wrong way or what?
>
>Secondly, does anyone know anything about this scanner? I'm willing to put
>in some time to get a driver coded if it's not supported and not too hard.
>=)
>
>Thanks,
>Christopher
>
>
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