Dear allan, To be sure, I had told them that I got the help from some clever guys on the Internet (that's why I used the Winky ;) . No, I didn't pretend I did it on my own and never would have. You have to remember that for most people, just _finding_ a place to get help with troubling hardware makes you a 'guru'. Really!
Again, thank you all for your time and advice! >From: "m. allan noah" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Parallel Port as SCSI [SOLVED] >Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 20:57:09 -0400 (EDT) > >no problem. you want them to think you are really a guru- do a google >search for 'scsi-add-single-device'. when you have mastered that trick, you >will be able to activate the scanner in only two steps, if it was turned >off at the time the pc was booted. > >btw- we did not write kooka, the kde folks did that. they might like to >hear from you. > >allan > >On Sat, 27 May 2006, Get A. Long wrote: > >>Wow! It work like a charm, and Kooka is a wonderfully intuitive >>application! >> >>The four steps suggested by Allan made it! I had in fact unplugged the >>terminator and wouldn't have thought of it otherwise. >> >>Anyhow, my family thinks I'm a great guru now! ;) >> >>Thanks all for the kind help!!! >> >>Thanks! >> >> >>>From: "m. allan noah" <[email protected]> >>>To: [email protected] >>>Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Parallel Port as SCSI >>>Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:54:51 -0400 (EDT) >>> >>>On Sat, 27 May 2006, Get A. Long wrote: >>> >>>>Hi all, >>>> >>>>Thank you all for your helpful comments! >>>> >>>>I went out and bought a PCI-SCSI card (Adaptec AHA-2904) + a noname >>>>optical mouse + a set of El Cheapo SoundBlaster speakers + an Animatrix >>>>DVD . All for 16$. So, I feel it was worth the 400 yd walk. :) >>>> >>>>The system recognizes the Adaptec card, but still no luck with the >>>>scanner... :( >>>> >>>>Any tricks up the sleeve? >>>> >>> >>>1. rmmod aic7xxx >>> >>>2. plug in and turn on the scanner. make sure it has a terminator on the >>>second plug (if it has a second plug) >>> >>>3. modprobe aic7xxx >>> >>>4. cat /proc/scsi/scsi and look for scanner >>> >>>if you dont see the scanner listed in that file, then dont even bother >>>with sane, you still have some sort of other error to fix first, bad >>>cable, bad card, etc. dmesg output might help. >>> >>>be aware that some scsi cards have internal and external ports, but only >>>one of them can be used at a time. check the card for a jumper or check >>>the cards bios (if it has one) for an option that controls this. >>> >>>if the card only has an external port, it should work, check cables and >>>termination. >>> >>>allan >>>-- >>>"so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. >>>money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera >>> >>>-- >>>sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] >>>http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >>>Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >>> to [email protected] >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! >>http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ >> >> > >-- >"so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. >money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera > >-- >sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] >http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
