Ray, Thanks for the input. Some things are making a lot more sense here. I'll make comments below.
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Bedrock LAN Administrator wrote: > > > > > Greetings folx. I have an old HP ScanJet Plus connected to my > > parallel port that I cannot seem to get working with Debian 2.0 no > > matter what I try. > > If it's the scanner I'm thinking of (8bit grayscale scanner) it needs a > proprietary interface card to function, which isn't much like a > parallel port, except for the cable. Does it work with DOS/Windows? DOS? Whassat? Winders? Whassat? *smirk* Seriously, though, I'm afraid that I can't test this scanner under either DOS or Windows, since I ditched all of that over a year ago (ain't it great to be MS-Free? visit www.i-want-a-website.com) > The ScanJet Plus is not listed as one of the supported scanners at the > SANE website. I'm pretty sure you're going to have a lot of trouble > getting this to work. You may have to write a driver yourself. I noticed before that it was not explicitly listed, but I was hoping that some of the newer drivers might be backward-compatible. > I took a look at "hpscanpbm", which is a command-line program to scan > from HP scanners direct to a file, and which the SANE HP driver is based > on: > ------------ > This program controls Hewlett-Packard ScanJet series scanners. It captures > the image based on command-line parameters, and provides it > as a thresholded, dithered, grayscale, or full-color Portable Pixmap. > > This is not a device driver; your ScanJet should be connected to a > SCSI adapter that is supported by Linux (which does not include the card > that came with the ScanJet). This program uses the generic SCSI > interface, so this feature must be available in the kernel. > ------------ I'll look into getting this app. Do you know off-hand where I can get it? If not, I'll do a web-search when I get a chance. :) > It doesn't look promising... > > > architecture, with the I/O card in an ISA slot. > > Is this "I/O card" the one that came with the ScanJet? Does it work as a > regular parallel port (can you plug a printer or perhaps a Zip drive into > it?) The I/O card is actually a multi-I/O.. EIDE+Floppy+Serial+Parallel. All are enabled and working properly. Yes, I have had a dot-matrix printer working on the parallel port before. This time, however, I modified my /etc/printcap to contain only one remote-printer definition pointing to my other linux box. Thus, lpd should not be trying to use this parallel port and should not be conflicting with the scanner software or device. > If so, it's just barely possible you might be able to get this to work. > >From what I understand, the Zip drives talk some funky SCSI-over-parallel > language. *If* you can get that parallel-to-SCSI converter module, and > *if* it talks the same way to the ScanJet, it *might* work... I'm aware of the SCSI emulator kernel module... I forgot to check that a moment ago while rebuilding my kernel, though... I can go back and try that tomorrow. Also, I *do* have a SCSI->Parallel adapter kicking around which was given to me with the scanner. I also have a SCSI card floating around which is known to work with the NCR-5380 module. I suppose that I could add those two components, but at first, this seemed like overkill... perhaps now it is the way to go. > > misconfigured). I created a link /dev/scanner -> /dev/lp0 when I run > > xcam and tell it to use either pnm:0 or pnm:1 (what are these?) it > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > These are dummy scanners, for testing purposes. When you "scan" with > them, it just reads a graphics file in PNM format off the disk. This makes perfect sense now. The last time that I saw 'pnm:' though, was with rvplayer5.0 in 'pnm://www.ithaca.edu/radio/vic/viclive.ram' or something like that. > Sincerely, > > Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "One man's 'magic' is another man's 'engineering'. 'Supernatural' is > a null word." - Robert Heinlein > > Forgive me for not chopping out all the extraneous info here... it's in the interest of my time ;-) - DeJay. _________ / Bedrock \__________________________ | http://bedrock.dyn.ml.org/dejay | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |_____________________________________|
