* '486DX4-120
* 32Mb RAM
* 200Mb and 1.2Gb IDE drives
* 2S/1P
* HP DeskJet 500 on LPT1 (fed via GhostScript)
* Red Hat Linux 5.0 (with a few updates)
She's already got GTK+ and GIMP of course.
I've read the list archives and picked up a bit of info, but
not enough to really make an informed decision and have it
work! As I understand it, my options are something like this:
1. Install a SCSI adaptor, pick up a SCSI scanner that SANE
likes, and hope for the best. My concern here is that the
PC has never had any SCSI adaptors, and Linux was told
this when I installed it, so I'm not sure it'd even notice.
If I did this, would I have to reinstall the kernel,
reinstall Linux, download GCC and rebuild the kernel, add
a module for SCSI, or what? :)
2. Try to find out what parallel scanners (if any) SANE can
handle - this information seems to be *very* scant! - and
get one of those, then hope that the PPort can handle it
(I have no idea whether it's bidirectional or whatever.)
I'm fairly familiar with Linux (been using it for a few years)
and SCSI in the context of UNIX (IRIX), but setting up
scanners is something I haven't messed with much. :)
Any suggestions on how to accomplish this relatively painlessly?
She's visiting her this week (leading up to our anniversary)
so if anyone can point me in the right direction pretty fast,
I should be able to have it up and running when she gets back.
Thanks in advance,
-Dan
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