Re: Newbie Q: Accessing Scanport SQ4800 via SANE

Hugo van der Kooij (Hugo.van.der.Kooij@caiw.nl)
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 18:15:32 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Dan Kegel wrote:

> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> > > Attached devices:
> > > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
> > > Vendor: N-TEK Model: NuScan II Rev: 1.60
> > > Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> > Do you have Generic SCSI support at all? It's propably missing in the
> > kernel or it's a module you didn't load.
>
> Yes. I'm running vanilla Red Hat 6.0. 'cat modules' shows
> sg 3824 0 (autoclean) (unused)
>
> Just to make sure, I recompiled a kernel without modules,
> and with generic scsi installed. No change.
> I also set permissions on /dev/sg0 (= /dev/sga) to
> 664. No joy. But setting permissions to 666 did something
> very different; guess installing
> sane-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm and sane-clients-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm
> doesn't create executables that are setgid to scanner
> (makes sense, since the scanner group didn't exist after the install).

That's right. Because the number of possible options one could run into I
didn't set suid or sgid the binaries in the package.

Hugo.

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