Jesper,
the necessary steps are documented on Christian Bucher's
web site (he implemented the PIO support):
http://www.vernetzt.at/~bucher/Epson/Epson.html
Just click on "Parallel" in the navigation bar.
Karl Heinz
Jesper Anderson <jesper@pobox.com> said:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 09:23:45AM -0000, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> > >I have an old Epson GT-6000 parallell port scanner.
> <snip>
> > As I understand it in sane.conf where you would put /dev/scanner
> > or whatever the device the scanner is hanging off you should put
> > the port number of the parallel port the scanner is on. Hence if
> > it is on parallel port one you would put 0x387, and 0x287 for
> > parallel port two.
>
> Ok, I tried that. Unfortunately 'scanimage -L' still tells me I have
> no sane devices.
>
> I assume I place sane.conf in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/, and that it
> is essentially a clone of epson.conf? I can't find any docs on this
> either, nor any example sane.conf files.
>
> Any idea on whether I need some form of SCSI support in the kernel
for
> this to work?
>
> Btw, it works well under Win 3.1/95/98, but NT refuses to find it
> through the parallell port.
>
> > In short no. If you get it working write it up and I will put a
link
> > on my parallel port scanners page.
>
> I'll be happy to. Now all I have to do is get it to work ... :)
>
> Jesper
>
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