On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:50 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > I have a CanoScan FS2710, which, by reports, can be made to work in linux. It > is, however, a SCSI device, and Control Center lists only one SCSI device, > 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 53c974 [PCscsi]. It is a Tekram DC390, and > googling turned up "The Linux DC390 PCI SCSI driver was originally written by > a Tekram engineer to support the Tekram DC390(T) PCI Fast SCSI host adpator" > so it seems that the scsi card is recognised. You'll probably need to load a driver for the SCSI card before any of the devices attached to it will work. Try: # modprobe tmscsim and see if that helps. > I know that xsane is installed in /usr/share/sane/ and the drivers appear to > be in /usr/lib/sane so I'm assuming that I can ignore most of the > instructions above. The download is a .tar.gz, and includes a Makefile. I > presume that I can unpack the tarball anywhere I like? Is it then just a > matter of editing the prefix line in the Makefile? And should that point > to /usr/sane? Sane ships with Fedora. Once the right SCSI driver is loaded, SANE should see your scanner if it's a supported one. Paul.
