On Wednesday 08 March 2006 13:35, Paul Howarth wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 March 2006 08:31, Paul Howarth wrote: > >>>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 don't know whether it was that re-scan that did it, but that has > > already been added to modprobe.conf. > > That should ensure that the tmscsim module is included in the initrd for > any subsequent kernels you install, and it will get loaded early in the > boot process. > > > What about sg, though? Does that need an entry too? > > In theory it should get loaded automatically when a scanner is detected > on the SCSI bus at boot time. > Job done. It did need that 'sleep' command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. It wouldn't work without it. Once that was in, it was fine. A desktop link is now created to VueScan (which, incidentally, creates much better scans than XSane, for me, at any rate), and non-tech husband can scan to his heart's content ;-) Thanks for all the help. Anne
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