Mike, Yes it worked! I used insmod -f with the path to the driver and all goes well.
Thank you very much Mike McNeese. I am most grateful to you and your ability with Linux. Regards, Malcolm Candlish. On Wed, 15 May 2002 02:10:47 -0500 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Malcolm Candlish wrote: > > > > Sirs, > > > > Having configured Mandrake 8.2 all went like a dream; except for my scanner a >Trust connect 19200. Clearly the scsi pci card could not be found so I insmod the >driver dmx3191d.o and it works, but I have to insmod as root each time I boot up. > > > > Is it possible to add that action to the boot system? > > > > Malcolm Candlish. > > > Hi , > > I had the same problem with my umax scanner in 8.0. > > the way I fixed the problem is to insert the following line into > /etc/rc.local: > > /sbin/insmod aic7xxx & > > everytime the system boots , if the scanner is on it loads the driver. > scanner has to be on at start up under this setup. > > maybe a better way but this is the only way it would work for me. > > Mike McNeese > >
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