On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:47:04PM -0600, William Penton wrote:
Howdy,
I have a parallel port HP ScanJet 5100c. Fedora doesn't recognize it is
even hooked up. Is there anyone that can help me figure out what to do
to make this thing work?
For this model, you're out of luck. I have this model too and normally
you require some sort of a kernel patch called a ppscsi patch to do that
located a long time ago at:
http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/parport/
But the developer himself, Tim Waugh, told me that he no longer
maintains this patch for the present kernel 2.4x.
If you're using Debian then you can find a dude
still maintaining it but for RH/FC, forget it unless you want to do it
yourself or you can find a maintainer. Do not attempt to recompile your kernel based on
the old
patch. I tried to and it was a mess!
This mail is to prevent you from losing your time with trying to
troubleshoot this scanner and find solutions. Practical Solution: buy a usb scanner
instead!
If you're not convinced, read below:
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I have not been maintaining this patch for a long time now. I tried to
find someone to take over maintainership of it:
http://www.torque.net/parport/archive/current/4134.html
http://www.torque.net/parport/archive/current/4276.html
http://www.torque.net/parport/archive/current/4333.html
http://www.torque.net/parport/archive/current/4526.html
http://www.torque.net/parport/archive/current/4582.html
http://www.torque.net/parport/archive/current/4764.html
but no-one stepped up. However, someone does seem to be having a stab
at it now:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/kernel-patch-ppscsi-2.4.html
Do not ask me questions about ppSCSI!
Tim.
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