Re: [SLE] Configuring UMAX Astra 610P in SuSE 7.1 (Kernel 2.4)

According to 'man sane-umax' parallell scanners of that brand aren't supported, and aren't likely to be either (of course that can change) Sorry Anders On Monday 11 June 2001 03:19, you wrote:

sundar narayanasamy wrote:

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It is. I am trying to configure my scanner, I have connected it to my printer port. Wouldn't I be able to configure if it is parallel? If not, how do I connect to my computer and configure it.

Cheers...! Sundar

Brian Stevenson wrote:

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----- Original Message ----- From: "linux" To: "Christian Klippel" Cc: "SuSE Linux" Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Configuring UMAX Astra 610P in SuSE 7.1 (Kernel 2.4)

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Hi Chris,

I did 'insmod sg'

All it said was /lib/modules.../scsi/sg.o

What should happen now? I still don't see my scanner in the cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Please excuse me for butting in here but doesn't the P in 610P stand for parallel?

Regards Brian

The 610P is not one of the Umax scanners which appears in the hardware support database...

http://cdb.suse.de/cgi-bin/scdb

On the other hand it's not down there as unsupported either. Besides that I doubt you'll have much luck configuring it as a generic scsi device and I'm not sure of the state of parallel device support for scanners ATM but it used to be very poor indeed. Personally I've never had cause to try setting up a parallel port scanner under linux, but perhaps someone who has done can help you out. I only pointed out the fact that you have a parallel port device to stop others from "barking up the wrong tree". Sorry I can't be of further help

ATB Brian