How to setup scanner
 

Hi folks,

FC2
Snap Scan 310 connected via ISA SCSI card

Following packages already installed on the box;
$ rpm -qa | grep sane
xsane-gimp-0.92-10
sane-backends-devel-1.0.13-7
sane-backends-1.0.13-7
xsane-0.92-10
sane-frontends-1.0.11-4

$ which sane
/usr/bin/which: no sane in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/satimis/bin)

$ which xsane
/usr/bin/xsane

$ xsane
can be started but could not detect the scanner
"no device available"

Please advise how to start "sane" and have the scanner setup

TIA

B.R.
satimis

For starters what type of scsi card? Brand, model, and bus type would definitly be helpful to pointing you into the right direction. Not knowing this I would assume you need the module for your scsi card to be loaded, which you are going to need brand and model for anyways.

That is all I needed to get my scanner up and running myself. If it was PCI under MDK it would have configured out of the box I am positive, but mine is ISA and I had to manually configure the module to load even with MDK detecting the card go figure.

If I were you the module loading for you scsi card would be where I would start myself. I hope this helps

Hi jchance,

Tks for your advice.
This is an old box and also an old scanner connected vis ISA SCSI card. The scanner was working on this box when it ran RedHat 8/9 (I could not remember exactly). I setup and made it works. Sorry, because it was already about 2 years ago. I could NOT remember how to do it again. Please shed me some light.

TIA

B.R.
satimis

Well I would put money then on the fact your linux distro didn't detect the scsi card. Mine which used to be detected under earlier versions of Mandrake turned up to be totally cast aside like it had lepracy or the bubonic plauge in MDK 10.1. All I had to do was modprobe the module for it to get it up to test. Then I appended it to the necessary file after. People say Mandrake is bloated but I have to say their choice of pre compiled modules etc., always come in handy. I will find the site that helped me with finding what module etc.d explain futher if you need it on that note of pre compiled modules.

If you don't have a module for the scsi card then we are talking compiling a kernel with it compiled in or as a module of that kernel. I hope they gave you a module for it as opposed to compiling a kernel and modules or comiling it into the kernel. It just makes life simpler if they gave it as a module for you to modprobe in.