See comment about reading the sane documentation. UMAX1220P is a supported device if I recall but, is probably one of the hard to configure ones. Best bet is to stick with USB and SCSI scanners.
Parallel port scanners are a notorious b**ch to work with. I know I have one. What man page are you reading? You need to make sure sane sees the device before you got to step 2.
-----Original Message----- From: Zscoundrel
I have noticed a tendency in the MAN pages to refer people to the system administrator. This ends up as a really nasty catch-22 when I am trying to figure something out because I *AM* the freaking' system administrator.
What is the point of looking stuff up in the man pages when it says "you may need to refer to your system administrator for the names of such devices. . . "? If I KNEW the freakin' names I would be using them and doing productive work and not wasting time with the MAN pages - SHEESH
I encountered this scenario while trying to get a UMAX1220P scanner working under fedora core2. All the google stuff is really shallow and the MAN and INFO stuff don't give me much to go on. Has anyone got any experience with this and could you throw me a lifeline??? It is an old parallel port connected scanner - but it is all I have available right now. I don't plan to use it much and I would REALLY hate to pop for a USB connected scanner until I see some light at the end of the tunnel.
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That's as good a place to start as any. Apparently the device is not recognized. I just set to BIOS to EPP and rebooted that machine, but still can't find the device.
Brian Densmore wrote:
See comment about reading the sane documentation. UMAX1220P is a supported device if I recall but, is probably one of the hard to configure ones. Best bet is to stick with USB and SCSI scanners.
Parallel port scanners are a notorious b**ch to work with. I know I have one. What man page are you reading? You need to make sure sane sees the device before you got to step 2.
-----Original Message----- From: Zscoundrel
I have noticed a tendency in the MAN pages to refer people to the system administrator. This ends up as a really nasty catch-22 when I am trying to figure something out because I *AM* the freaking' system administrator.
What is the point of looking stuff up in the man pages when it says "you may need to refer to your system administrator for the names of such devices. . . "? If I KNEW the freakin' names I would be using them and doing productive work and not wasting time with the MAN pages - SHEESH
I encountered this scenario while trying to get a UMAX1220P scanner working under fedora core2. All the google stuff is really shallow and the MAN and INFO stuff don't give me much to go on. Has anyone got any experience with this and could you throw me a lifeline??? It is an old parallel port connected scanner - but it is all I have available right now. I don't plan to use it much and I would REALLY hate to pop for a USB connected scanner until I see some light at the end of the tunnel.
Any suggestions??? _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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