Actually I found this site, but at present I'm not in the mood and don't even have the time to build the module from source, especially as it needs all kinds of headers and stuff. Perhaps you could tell me, how to figure out if my parallel port is working, and at best, where I can get this module as abinary release. btw, why isn't it included with sane? Sorry for the delay in answering, but I'm quite busy right now, but I need the scanner. Florian And, as you're quite busy on the list, I find it very good that you do so much answering people and helping them. Am Di, den 20.04.2004 schrieb Alexander Dalloz um 15:30: > Am Di, den 20.04.2004 schrieb Florian Idelberger um 15:12: > > > What may be problematic is that modprobe doesn't find pt_drv, isn't that > > downloadable via apt or so specifically for fedora? > > At some point you interrupted your research. I quickly found the related > sites and files and documents using google: > > http://www.gjaeger.de/scanner/plustek.html > > http://www.gjaeger.de/scanner/archive/plustek-sane-0.45-7.tar.gz > -> contains the driver modules source; even comes with a German install > instructions file: backend/plustek_driver/INSTALL.GER > > http://www.fifi.org/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man5/sane-plustek.5.gz > > Alexander >