well bugger me, but i seem to recall it working at the workshop evening some months ago.
hard to believe a scanner is less compatible with a LATER kernel. perhaps you just need so suss out a fix. is it a simple matter of the card not being in the kernel's database? I seem to recall wee loaded the module with explicit vendor and product id's this guy seems ok with 2.4.20: http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/wiki?Sane I have various versions of the kernel tree installed, all gentoo sources, which do have a number of patches campared to the vanilla kernel, namely: linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r2 linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 linux-2.4.19-gentoo-r10 linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r1 linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r6 of these only the r6 and r7 2.4.20 ones have the entry for the Perfection 1260 in drivers/usb/scanner.h. They are added there by a patch, cos they are NOT in the vanilla kernel file. the entry IS in 2.4.21 vanilla kernel though. Assuming the failure of scanner.o to recognise your scanner is the problem, the solution seems to be: upgrade to 2.4.21; or patch 2.4.20; or stick with what worked; or load the module with setting the vendor and producy id's manually. the latter is probably the easiest. If you really want to dual boot: *make sure you can boot linux from a floppy/cd *load windows, it wil overwrite the mbr and destroy your ability to boot linux off the hard drive's mbr *boot linux off your floppy/cd *edit your boot/lilo configuration file as appropriate to include the evil alternative. if lilo is your flavour, then re-run lilo. if grub is your flavour, set it up on your mbr again. but think about fixing your linux problem first. its really not worth going back..... On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:50:01+1200 Chris Wilkinson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've finally gotten sick of trying to get my Epson Perfection 1260 > USB scanner to work. The Epson Iscan software won't work under > Mandrake 9.1 (despite working very well under 9.0), and Epson seem to > be slow to resolve issues with that (most users with a > 2.4.19 kernel > will have trouble either running the software, or trouble compiling > it). > > I have decided to install Windows 98 or 98SE onto my system so I can > use the scanner. My question is this...a dual-boot system is quite a > simple system to create, provided Windows is already installed...but > can I install Windows onto an existing Linux system? > > I hate the idea of having Winblows on my PC but Linux solutions for > this scanner are useless. I payed good money for the scanner, based > on reports on linux hardware compatibility sites that claimed using > the 1260 scanner would be fine. I wish I'd waited 3 months, because > then I would have bought a different scanner to take account that > so many users of later kernels cannot use that scanner... > > Anyways, can anyone shed some light on installing Windows to a linux > system? > > Kind regards, > > Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch. > > >
