Brian, I hope you have been monitoring the Eugene Lug list. Subsequent postings point to a Web site w. a step by step HOWTO. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/microtekX6.html Your speculation about Windows vs. Linux for scanner support depends upon a lot of factors such as which version of Windows or Linux and what exact make/model of scanner. I would guess that any scanner that is currently being sold has to support Win 98, so any required driver(s) and a decent set of applications including OCR would be bundled w. the scanner. My own recent experience will shock many. I have an HP Scanjet 4c, which is SCSI. On my PIII-500, I have an Adaptec 2906 SCSI adapter. I hooked up the scanner to it and installed Windows 2000 Professional. Win 2k is notorious for its lack of drivers, but it automatically installed drivers for both the Adaptec 2906 and the HP Scanjet 4c. I confirmed this by looking at Control Panel | Device Manger After I saw that, I looked at the software apps bundled w. Win 2k and found an "Imaging" utility that has a "capture image" function which supports the ScanJet 4c. If there were an OCR utility, I would not need any additional 3rd party software. Since the Eugene Lug got a parallel scanner to work, I'm certain that the HP ScanJet 4c will also work under Linux. But, in terms of ease of enabling Scanner support; Win 2k is the clear winner here. This Saturday, Mike Smith, one of the Lug leaders, is giving a presentation on recompiling the kernel. This appears to be a required step to add support for any make/model scanner regardless of SCSI/parallel/USB(some day soon). Maybe, some less invasive method for adding scanner support will emerge in the Linux arena. I know that Mike plans to talk about some options such as "insmod" and "modprobe" that sometimes are available as alternatives to recompiling the kernel. I hope that the Eugene Lug success w. parallel port scanner has helped you w. your UMAX pp scanner. Rodney b k mcdonald wrote: > http://www.mostang.com/sane/ > > Try SANE. That would be your best starting point. I think this would be a good >place to gauge the MS vs. linux argument: > > A linux computer is on the left, and an MS computer is on the right. A parallel >port scanner is in the middle. Which computer do you hook it up to? > > If you get it to work, please post to eug-lug. My UMAX Astra 1200P is apparently >unlinuxable, so no fun for me. > > I hope you stay "sane." > > bkm > > Brian K. McDonald, > Portland, Oregon, USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
