Hi
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 02:37:51AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > On 09-Jun-2001 Yedidya Bar-david wrote:
> > > Do you have a /dev/usbscanner ?
> > no, but I also don't have any othe /dev/usb* and my USB printer works, so I'm
> > not sure that's related
> >
> > > Try mknod /dev/usbscanner c 180 48 (Well, that's what I have)
> > I looked at the man page and info page for mknod and found no explanation for
> > the Major and Minor params you mention, so I'd like a bit more info before
> > running this and maybe **breaking** something :-)
> >
Look at your kernel sources, wherever they are, in Documentation/devices.txt.
It says:
"180 char USB devices"
" 48 = /dev/usb/scanner0 First USB scanner"
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> Isn't /dev/MAKEDEV the preferred way to make devices (assuming it is available
> and supports the device you need)?
>
My MAKEDEV doesn't know about USB, yet. (It's from Debian 2.2, ~1 year old).
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> > > Can you try to connect only the scanner? without the printer? Does
> > > it make any difference? When you attach the scanner, does the kernel
> > > say ANYTHING? do 'dmesg' before and after.
> > Scanner only with no printer attached doesn't help. As far as your second
> > question, when you say **attach the scanner** do you mean the physical cable or
> > the insmod scanner command to load the driver?
I mean boot your machine with scanner unpluged, insmod everything, look at
dmesg to see that everything is ok, then plug it in and dmesg to see what
messages are being added.
> >
> > > What kernel do you run?
> > 2.4.3-20mdk (Out of the box Mandrake 8.0)
Seems good enough for me, although I havn't ran mandrake for a long time.
> >
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