On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 22:38 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 07 March 2006 22:18, Paul Howarth wrote:ecognised. > > > > 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. > > > Well, the command was accepted. Should I add that into modprobe.conf? See if it detected your hardware first. Look in /var/log/messages for the time that you inserted the module and see if anything relevant appears. You might also try "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" and see what appears. If that shows your scanner, then you've got the right module. Add: alias scsi_hostadapter tmscsim to /etc/modprobe.conf > > > 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. > > > I think so, too. So it only remains to determine how to load the driver. I > hope someone experienced will be able to answer my questions, so that I can > try for that in the morning. Let's make sure you've got the right SCSI driver first. Paul.
