Osvaldo Fornaro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this was discussed before, because i am new to the
> list. I hope to connect a scanner to the parallel port.
> The instalation of the software seems to be okay, but i don�t get my
> scanner work.
>
> Someone could give me a hint about the documentation or maybe a look
> around this?
Yeah, there should probably be better documentation. The first thing to
check is that the scanner does indeed show up in /proc/scsi/scsi. If it
doesn't then you need to reconfigure Linux before it is going to work and
that is beyond the scope of a document in the Wine tree.
If it does show up in /proc/scsi/scsi and you do have read/write access to
the device then your scanner software should work if it is expecting to talk
to the scanner via normal ASPI calls. If it wants to talk to the scanner
via the parallel port directly (which is how I thought most Windows parallel
scanner programs operated) then you need to figure out a way for it to do
that and disable SCSI over parallel in Linux. Of course if the program does
talk directly to the printer port then it probably needs a VxD to run and
that won't be supported.
-Dave
