T. Ribbrock wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:15:22PM +1000, Alex Fisher wrote: >> I recently (last Friday) got an old Umax Vista T-630 scanner. Uses an 8 >> bit ISA NCR 53c400 SCSI card. Main problem is, I can't seem to configure >> the card. It is not detected at all, and attempting to modprobe the >> module freezes the computer totally. > > Several things come to mind: > - Have you googled for that card + Linux to see whether this problem > has been encountered (and maybe solved) by others?
The kernel source has the code for this card, and I have complied it as a module. Only problem is, it may be compiled for either port mapping or memory mapping, but not both... > - You could also search the archives of the Sane mailing list, as sane > is the scanner software used on Linux. The Sane backend is installed on the system. It is a supported scanner... > - Do you know whether that card has any possibilities to assign IRQ/IO > port? If so, have you played with that? Not IRQ as far as I can tell, but the I/O port is settable by switches on board. I've left it at the default (0x300), as that is not currently in use on my system (it was before I upgraded the network card...). > - Have you tried without the CD reader/burner (especially without > their module)? No, because if I do that, I won't be able to use the burner... > > That's all I can think of at the moment... Thanks for the suggestions... I'll keep plugging away... > > Cheerio, > > Thomas -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia
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