Hi,
This may go into the too hard basket but has anyone managed to get a Parrellel Port scanner working in FC3.
It appears I might have to Patch the Kernel and recompile, sound s scarry but willing to give it a go. (I seem to crash this system every few weeks doing updates so another reload won't hurt.).
I can't find out much about what modules are installed as lsmod and insmod both report 'command not found', which doesn't make things any easier.
I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has succesfully managed to get get their PP Scanner working.

Failing that which current cheap (only scan a few things per year) USB scanners work out of the box?

TIA

This is a feature of fedora. Goto to terminal 1 by pressing ctrl+alt+F1 and login as root. There the commands like lsmod will work. I think fedora already has whatever you might need to have pp scanner running. At http://www.sane-project.org/ you may get more technical details and tools.

The Ctrl-Alt-F1 worked at treat but how do you get back to the gui, startx failed as x was already running.

It appears I am going to have to rebuild the kernel, parport is there as is parport-pc but:
insmod scsi-mod
insmod sg
insmod ppscsi
insmod epst

all fail (can't find them) modprobe the same modules says it can't find them:-(

Hold on!
There are I think 9-10 terminals all with alt+ctrl+[Fkey]. Your default gui is on F7. Check the sane documentation online. They may have some help and toold for you.

hey thanks for the info, the sane pages have some help but not alot. Will probably just plug the scanner into the kids games computer and then access the images thru the Lan. Really not all that interested in compilling a kernel.

I am trying to get one of these suckers going too, only Slackware 10.1, kernel 2.4.29.

I thought I would go through the following steps:
1 Plug it in (that is always a good start)
2 Get and modprobe the modules like ppscsi.o
3 Fire up xsane and scan, scan, scan.

I found step 1 quite easy.

I downloaded ppscsi-beta2.tar.gz. When I went make it appeared to chug through without a hitch, but at the finish there was no ppscsi.o. No *.ko, *.o, nothing.

Do I need kernel 2.6? Does anyone know why the modules like ppscsi.o do not exist at the end of the build process?

Thanks in advance

Fogwatch.

Doubt if this will help, but I have been struggling with the same thing for a Canon scanner. I found a list of separate drivers googling for parallel scanner drivers in Linux. While it has not worked yet, sane and xsane find the scanner on parport0 and do attempt to scan (scanner actually starts to scan) but the program hangs from there.

It could be that a stand alone driver for your scanner might work. The link is on the scanner support page for the sane project.

Bob

This is how I started my HP 5100c scanner
wget ftp-://people.redhat.com/twaugh/patches/linux25/linux-ppscsi.patch
Follow the documentation at http-://www-.justlinux.-com/forum/showthread.php?t=60630 for patching and compiling the kernel.
modprobe ppscsi
modprobe epst
Add them to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
xsane. Scan, scan, scan.

BTW, I'm glad you weren't watching, because actually I didn't originally plug it in correctly.