On 09-Jun-00 david.naura@st.com wrote:
> I have a parallel scanner Microtek : Phantom 330CX.
> I have installed Mandrake 7 on my computer. Sane is also installed but
> the scanner is not recognized.
> I heard that it was possible to make it work. But could someone please
> explain me what to do step by step to achieve this ?
There are 2 things you need.
First you need the kernel supporting the parport chip. Most Microtek parport
scanners use the Onspec 90c26 chip, so I guess yours too.
You can get it from http://torque.net/parport
There is a kernelpatch ppscsi, the normal one is written for a 2.2.x kernel,
till 2.2.12
There is also one for the 2.2.13 and higher kernel. It was somewhere on
ftp://ftp.torque.net under the Tim directory but I cannot find it anymore. If
you need that one and you cannot find it I can mail it to you
You need to copy it to the kernel-source directory (in /usr/src/linux for Suse).
Then you need to patch the kernel with it.A good idea is to read the kernel
Howto. This patch cannot be patched with the -p0 option. This is what I did:
patch -p1 < ppscsi-patch
If all goes well than the patch will be patched under the drivers directory.
When you do make xconfig (or whatever you want) you will see the options under
SCSI-lowlevel drivers.
You need to build the ppscsi and onscsi as modules.
After compiling and installing you can do modprobe onscsi.
If all goes well then the modules sg, scsi_mod, ppscsi and onscsi will be
loaded.
I myself had some problems with loading the paroprt modules and the ppscsi
modules at the same time, so when I load my ppscsi modules, I first unload my
parport modules.
With sgcheck or find-scanner you can see if the kernel finds the scanner.
If it does, than you can use sane for scanning.
Hope this helped you on your way.
Hope I didn't forget anything.
Marcel Pol
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