Wolfram, Thanks for your reply!
>From: "Wolfram Heider" <[email protected]> >the driver for the Umax 1200 S (the 'S' stands for SCSI) should already be >on your hd in a SuSE 10.1 Installation. You may check it with Yast - >Hardware - Scanner. Yes, it is there, as "UMAX Astra 1200S : Driver umax (package sane) provides good functionality. [OK]" But, when I plug it in into my pc's parallel port (I never received a special pci card) it just doesn't find it. Yes, I had made sure that scanner support was available when I installed the system two days ago. The message I get is "umax - No scanner recognized by this driver" >If you don't get the list of drivers, you will have to postinstall the >SANE-package. >A more serious point is the scsi-controller (PCI-card). This one shipped >together with the scanner by Umax probably won't work. You will need a >decent one from an independent manufacturer (AdvanSys, Dawicontrol or so - >not very cheap,. so googling around for an used one may spare some money). >The controller needs a seperate driver normally loaded by the kernel at >boot time. So, maybe I didn't enable scsi (cannot remember, as I didn't know then the scanner was a scsi part). I'll try it. But also, will I _need_ a special pci-card for scsi hardware? Would the scsi plug in card have a parallel port interface too? >As for Windows: XP supports the 1200 S directly with an own driver - try a >postinstallation with the hardware/device-manager. For the original >Vistascan-driver go to http://www.umax.com/support. It's not downloadable, >only available on CD-ROM. I had Windows 2000 on the other machine. Again, thanks for your kind help! _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
