Wow!  That did it!  Thanks!  Actually, I didn't actually recompile the
kernel, I just created the symlink and that did it.  My understanding was
that the ss driver has been fixed since 1.4.2, so I gave it a shot and it
worked flawlessly.

Now, I have a different but related question:  the laptop (G3/266) has
built in ethernet (bm0) that's connected to a cable modem and local
network (2 machines at home).  And it has a built-in modem that I want to
fax from.  Can that be done?  I haven't researched this on-line yet, but
while I was saying "thanks" I thought I'd throw the question out there.

Jeff

"Principium sapientiae silentium est."

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > I'm trying to get sane running on a laptop connected via scsi to a umax
> > astra 1200s scanner.   I'm using 1.5B.
> > According to dmesg | more, my scanner is recognized:
> > ss0 at scsibus 0 target 5 lun 0:<umax, astra 1200s, v2.9> SCSI6/scanner
> > fixed
> > But when I try:
> > scanimage -V
> > or, scanimage --list-devices
> > I get absolutely no output.  No devices are found.
> 
> My setup (on i386, but it should be sufficiently the same):
> o Comment out the 'ss*    at scsibus? target ? lun ?      # SCSI
>   scanners' line in your kernel config -- I was told there were some
>   issues with it, and uk* is a better match; recompile, install
>   kernel and reboot -- check for the lines:
> 	uk0 at scsibus1 target 6 lun 0: <, Scanner, 1.80> SCSI4 6/scanner fixed
> 	uk0: unknown device
> 
> o Change the permissions of /dev/uk0 (or whatever your scanner gets
>   attached as) so that the user who does the scanning has read and write
>   permissions (one way to do it would be creating a group 'scanner',
>   giving /dev/uk0 to it and making it group writeable).
> 
> o make a symbolic link from /dev/uk0 to /dev/scanner -- that's where
>   sane and friends go looking first.
> 
> Another note: If you turn on the scanner after booting, you can get it
> recognized by running
> 	scsictl /dev/scsibus0 scan any any
> as root (replace scsibus0 by the bus your scanner is hanging on, if
> you have more than one scsi controller card in your computer). Removal
> doesn't work, though.
> 
> Hope this helps,
>  Thomas
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Klausner - wiz@danbala.tuwien.ac.at
> I think...I think it's in my basement. Let me go upstairs and check.
>  -- M.C. Escher (1898-1972)
>