does the plustek work without the printer attached? allan
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Immanuel CRC Office wrote: > I have an HP 1200 Laser Jet printer and Plustek OpticPro 9636P+ scanner. > (scanner is supported by backends) > > The scanner is connect first to the parallel port, and then the printer is > connected to the scanner. > > The printer works without a hitch. > > When I do scanimage -L I get: > device `hpaio:/par/HP_LaserJet_1200?device=/dev/parport0' is a hp > HP_LaserJet_1200 multi-function peripheral > > Is it not possible to connect two parallel devices in serial to connect to > the scanner? > > If it is, I do not know how to proceed. I do not have pt_drv module > installed, but I'm not clear if I need that. I seem to have the right > backends, and I've removed the # from the plustek_pp in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf > file. > > Ubuntu AMD64 6.06 (Dapper) > Sane and XSane installed > > Thanks, > Crystle > > -- "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
