On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 13:15, Lloyd Hayes wrote: > I'll start with the Xsane problems. Running FC2 on an older Gateway > laptop, P1, 233 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 6 GB Hard drive. > In addition to the above hardware, I have a HP PSC-1210 (All-in-one > Scanner/Printer), 40 GB USB v2.0 Hard drive (Buslink), USB v2.0 52X > CD-Burner/DVD Player, PCMCIA USB v2.0 hub, 2 PCMCIA 802.11b cards > (Netware and a generic one which was free), PCMCIA US Robotics 802.11g > card, Nikon camera w/usb connector, various other media usb connectors. > > Background: For the last few months, in my spare time, I've been using > my backup computer to play around with putting FreeBSD 5.2.1, Slackware > 10.0, Red Hat 9, Debian "Sarge", and now I am back to putting Fedora > Core 2 on it for the 2nd time. /(Fedora Core 1 simply refused to install > on this computer.)/ At this point, Red Hat 9 is my favorite system and > seems to work best, but has outdated drivers and doesn't seem to be > supported any more. Fedora has the current drivers and it is supported, > and it is only a small step down from Red Hat. > > 1.) I'll hit the Wi-Fi cards 1st. I travel all of the time and hook > exclusively into the Internet by WiFi systems across the country. I use > my US Robotics "g" card most of the time since most systems are running > at 5.4 MB/sec, but a few are only running at 2.2 MB/sec or "b" speeds. > So far none of my cards has been supported by a UNIX type system. I'm > curious if anything is being done in that area? Wireless is still somewhat an adventure in Linux. There are several approaches. One is to google for a native driver that supports your "chipset". That's the part you need to try to figure out. Not necessarily the vendor of the card but rather the vendor of the chipset inside the card.... There are also a couple of projects that are trying to make the "Windows drivers" work under Linux and some people have been using that as an option. I'm lucky in that I found a native driver that works well (cheers to Project MadWifi). > > 2.) HP PSC-1210 printer/scanner. It prints out fine using the cups > drivers. But Xsane is not showing up in Gnome, except in Gimp. When I > run Sane under Gimp, it searches for the scanner and says that there is > no scanner connected. After the search, it only gives me the option of > closing the search program. I don't know of a way to manually configure it. > One thing is that FC2 has decided to remove the direct menu item launching xsane directly with the assumption being that we will all be in Gimp or something similar that would then launch xsane itself. Of course, opening up a terminal window and typing in xsane has worked for me.... :-) As to your specific scanner, I do not think there is good news. I just took a look at http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html and the PSC-1210 does not appear to be listed. This means that there is no code to support that scanner in xsane at the moment. I do not know that the future may or may not hold though.... <snip> Not sure about your other questions, I'll let others jump in on those... HTH, --Rob
