Re: [newbie] KMail install?

2002-01-11 Thread DStevenson

On Friday 11 January 2002  3:50 pm, Michael Scottaline wrote:
 On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:44:11 -0500

 Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Ok.  I guess I'll have to install KDE then.  Unless anyone knows of a
  better mail package out there?

 
 Yup..., go to   sylpheed.good-day.net
 Mike

Good suggestionI now I did not ask the question above but
I have been getting fed up with kmail, it is very slow downloading
from pop3 boxes. Just downloaded sylpheed.good-day.net and it
is perfect.

Thanks again, well recomended

Dave.

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Re: [newbie] KDE Startup Sound

2002-01-03 Thread DStevenson

Have you run sndconfig from a shell...this solved my problem that was same as yours.

Dave.

On Thursday 03 January 2002  1:44 pm, Miark wrote:
 Civileme,

 I stand corrected. It did make a difference:
 now XMMS won't play music at all with any
 of the three output plugins. mpg123 and ogg13
 are dead, too.

 FreeAmp is the only thing that plays, and when
 I use it the first time, I do not hear the
 KDE startup sound.

 Miark

 - Original Message -
 From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 7:39 PM
 Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE Startup Sound

  Civileme,
 
  It doesn't seem to do anything. Do I need
  to restart a service or reboot?
 
  Miark
 
 
 
  - Original Message -
  From: tester [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 6:23 PM
  Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE Startup Sound
 
   Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:14:44 -0700, Miark wrote:
   Sound has never worked as it should on my 8.1 with
   SB Live Value, but it's worked well enough to do
   what I want (for instance, using mpg123 or ogg132
   instead of xmms, etc.).  Things are still fine, but
   I'm regularly expiencing something strange that I
   thought I ask about.
   
   When startx into KDE, I hear no startup sound. But
   if, later in the session, I play a song, like with
   mpg123, the KDE startup sound plays all of the sudden.
   It doesn't affect the music playing at all. It's just
   weird.
   
   Any ideas?
   
   Miark
   
Same problem here, - it's no big deal though.
Kaj Haulrich
   
   
   
   
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   Hmmm
  
   sounds like both OSS and ALSA drivers are loaded and running
  
   What happens with
  
   chkconfig --del alsa
  
   ?
  
   (In a terminal as root)
  
   Civileme
 
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Re: [newbie] problem with PERL (saint)

2001-11-18 Thread DStevenson

snip
  receive a message: this package needs /bin/perl... then I check
  out my /bin/ and I didn't see /bin/perl... I look up with my
snip

Perl is located in /usr/bin, and in MDK8, it is linked to perl5; why is your 
program looking in /bin/perl, you could try to put a symbolic link in as root,

ln -s /usr/bin/perl /bin/perl

If this works though, it might be worth trying to find out what script has 
the incorrect path.

Dave



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Re: [newbie] Help with Telnet

2001-10-25 Thread DStevenson

Have you set up your /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny files.

The linux box when it recvs a connection attempt, the inetd deamon checks 
these files for access rights. You must have something in there to allow the 
IP addresses of your client machines.

For example: 
192.168.0.1 which is linux box
192.168.0.2 which is your windoze box

/etc/hosts.deny would have the entry like 'ALL:ALL' to deny all access.
/etc/hosts.allow would have 'AlLL: 192.168.0.2'
(Both of these on your Linux box)

The inetd deamon would disallow all connections except those listed in the 
allow file.

Maybe OK to use telnet on your local NET, but would suggest you use SSH for 
all other comms.

Regards,
Dave


On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:11, you wrote:
 I have a similar problem. Sorry I don't the answer for you, but if I find
 the answer to my problem I'll let you know. I have two computers, one is
 running linux as a server and the other is running win 98. I want to telnet
 from win 98 to my linux server, but I can't. It just says host refused
 connection. I don't have a firewall set up, and I do have a user account
 set up for myself on the linux machine. So I don't know why it doesn't
 work.

 Is the same problem you're having?

 mitch





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 with Telnet ndrake.com


 10/25/01 12:48 AM
 Please respond to
 newbie






 Hi Folks,

 I have a Dell 2400 system with a couple of NICs installed (am also
 experiencing the same issue with a laptop w. 2 NICs).

 Basically the problem is that I cannot telnet to any of my local hosts.  I
 can ping them no problem but when it comes to telnetting, all I get is the
 login prompt, enter my username and nothing more.  Eventually a message
 comes back saying the remote host closed the connection.

 In either case I have used netconf and setup the default route, the DNS
 etc...

 EG:
 machine ip, 10.10.10.100
 gateway ip, 10.10.10.1
 DNS (int) , 10.10.10.1
 host network, 203.55.65.xxx

 Ive disabled the 2nd interface, still no luck.

 If anyone can share their troubleshooting tips I would appreciate it

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Re: [newbie] Help with Telnet

2001-10-25 Thread DStevenson


By the way, have you installed the telnet server?

Go to the software manager and install from their.

Dave

On Thursday 25 October 2001 11:17, you wrote:
 I'm having the same problem as you two - three separate installs of
 LM 8.1, and none of them have a functioning telnet :(
 Can't figure out why, but I'll post if I do find out anything.

 Edmund

  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
  Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:11 AM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with Telnet
 
 
 
  I have a similar problem. Sorry I don't the answer for you,
  but if I find
  the answer to my problem I'll let you know. I have two
  computers, one is
  running linux as a server and the other is running win 98. I
  want to telnet
  from win 98 to my linux server, but I can't. It just says host refused
  connection. I don't have a firewall set up, and I do have a
  user account
  set up for myself on the linux machine. So I don't know why it doesn't
  work.
 
  Is the same problem you're having?
 
  mitch
 
 
 
 
 
 
  cvine140402@netscape.
 
  net (Carl Vine)  To:
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent by: cc:
 
  newbie-owner@linux-maSubject:
  [newbie] Help with Telnet
  ndrake.com
 
 
 
 
 
  10/25/01 12:48 AM
 
  Please respond to
 
  newbie
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Hi Folks,
 
  I have a Dell 2400 system with a couple of NICs installed (am also
  experiencing the same issue with a laptop w. 2 NICs).
 
  Basically the problem is that I cannot telnet to any of my
  local hosts.  I
  can ping them no problem but when it comes to telnetting, all
  I get is the
  login prompt, enter my username and nothing more.  Eventually
  a message
  comes back saying the remote host closed the connection.
 
  In either case I have used netconf and setup the default
  route, the DNS
  etc...
 
  EG:
  machine ip, 10.10.10.100
  gateway ip, 10.10.10.1
  DNS (int) , 10.10.10.1
  host network, 203.55.65.xxx
 
  Ive disabled the 2nd interface, still no luck.
 
  If anyone can share their troubleshooting tips I would appreciate it
 
  Cheers
 
 
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Re: [newbie] /etc/ppp/ip-up.local not starting

2001-09-20 Thread DStevenson

You may have to specify the config file for WWWoflle.

The default lines should be:

# ADDED FOR WWWOFFLE CONFIG
/usr/local/bin/wwwoffle -online -c /var/spool/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf
/usr/local/bin/wwwoffle -fetch -c /var/spool/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf 
# end additions by dgs 24/08/2001

Hope this helps.

To check if a script is being run or not, you could enter,

touch /tmp/test.file 

at the bottom of the script.

When the script is run, it is run as root, therefore the file test.file will 
exist, or the timestamp will be current if it exists, if it is not created, 
then it was not run.

Dave.


On Thursday 20 September 2001 21:46, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
 I have the following lines as default  in /etc/ppp/ip-up

 LOGDEVICE=$6
 REALDEVICE=$1

 export PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

 [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-${LOGDEVICE} ] 
 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post ifcfg-${LOGDEVICE}

 [ -x /etc/ppp/ip-up.local ]  /etc/ppp/ip-up.local $@

 exit 0
 my /etc/ppp/ip-up.local is not getting started.
 I have following lines in /etc/ppp/ip-up.local
 #!/bin/bash

 /usr/local/bin/wwwoffle -online
 /usr/local/bin/wwwoffle -fetch
 As wwwoffle -online is not getting executed. This I get to know from
 wwwoffle where if I request pages it gets recorded as request. But if I
 start wwwoffle -online using control provision I can browse. How
 ip-up.local is started. As I see it is started by ip-up. If I am correct
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[newbie] Squid + https, cannot connect to https url's

2001-09-06 Thread DStevenson


HI all,

Can anyone help with the above subject please?

I have Squid and DansGuardian installed. DG is listening on 8080 which 
connects to Squid on 3128. The SSL connection is directed to 3128 as per DG 
website FAQ. I am expecting Squid to tunnel directly thru the proxy with a 
CONNECT statement. When I connect to any https url, Squid denies the 
connection as access denied. My squid.conf file is as default except for the 
listening port (8080 default - 3128 ). I have played arounf with the 
settings:

#Defaults:
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl SSL_ports port 443 563
acl Safe_ports port 80 21 443 563 70 210 1025-65535
acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
acl CONNECT method CONNECT

The access.log shows the following:

192.168.0.1 TCP_DENIED/403 1023 CONNECT ibankon.barclays.co.uk:443 - NONE/- - 

I have tried to include the 403 in the SSL_ports line and restart, but no 
diff seen. I dont understand what I need to do.

Any help would be appreciated.

Dave.

Basic config:
 192.168.0.1 Mandrake 8.0 Celeron 466 256MB 
 192.168.0.10 Mandrake 8.0 P120 160MB exports all home ares via NFS 
exports.

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Re: [newbie] eth0 not up on boot

2001-08-23 Thread DStevenson

On Thursday 23 August 2001 07:29, Kevin Khaw wrote:
 I have the pcmcia version of it and it doesnt not install under mandrake. I
 have tried various things with it but still no luck. I use redhat 7.1 now
 and it works. Harddrake detects it but doesnt want to install the module.
 8139too.o is there but when you insmod it, it says irq errors i think.
 Maybe the bundled driver sucks.

 Kevin


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ie. ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255

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Re: [newbie] How do I test my NIC?

2001-08-23 Thread DStevenson

You don't need to su to root to view ifconfig data. /sbin/ifconfig as normal 
user to view the data.

Least time spent as root the better.

Just my cents worth!

On Wednesday 22 August 2001 23:01, Matt Greer wrote:
 --- Glenn Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  My NIC tests ok with it's software.  How can I be
  sure the correct drivers,
  etc. are configured?  How do I test it?

 as root, type ifconfig from a console. Your nic
 should pop up with an ip address.

 Then i'd ping the loopback address (ping 127.0.0.1)
 and your nic's ip address for good measure.

 If you pass all three tests you should be good to go.

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Re: [newbie] Unable to mount second drive

2001-08-13 Thread DStevenson

Have a look the dmesg, this will show the partitions on the drive

hdb: hdb1  hdb5 

for example, hdb5 being ht emountable partition.

On Monday 13 August 2001 19:55, Travis Olds wrote:
 On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Ray Booysen wrote:
  I have a P2 350 running Linux Mandrake 7.1 .
 
  I am unable to mount my second harddrive that is running on Primary
  Slave.  It is a Fat32 drive.  If I try to mount it it gives me the error
  that there are either too many mounted drives or that it can't find a
  file system Any Help

 Are you typing the following command as root:

 mount -t vfat /dev/hdb* /mnt/mount_point

 where:
 * is the partition number on the drive you want to mount, or either
 1 or empty, I can't remember, if there is only 1 partition.

 mount_point is the directory you created to mount the drive at.

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Re: [newbie] Ad Blocker for Linux? (Mandrake 8.0)

2001-07-17 Thread DStevenson

On Monday 16 July 2001 11:57, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
 There's an article about this on MandrakeForum.com right now.

 On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:42, Jim Lynch wrote:
  Anybody know of a good ad blocker for Linux? I tried
  WebWasher but it didn't work right. Is there anything
  else out there? I hate being stuck with so many
  obnoxious ads flashing at me.
 
  Thanks in advance if you can point me in the right
  direction.  :-)
 
  Jim
I use SAB, (check out the Forum as mentioned above), esay to compile and 
install. I compiled it and created /usr/bin/sab, put the config files and the 
executable in their, check the permissions, and enter the startup and 
shutdown commands in the ppp up/down scripts. Works for me a treat.

It also has java control, and cookie blocker.

Dave.




Re: [newbie] problem with /sbin/ifup ppp0, modem dials then hangs up (error 17)

2001-06-30 Thread DStevenson

On Saturday 30 June 2001 02:22, Fireman71 wrote:
 I rearranged my home office today to please my better half who is always
 complaining about it being cluttered and saying things like This room
 would look so much better if only..

 This reordering involved moving my LM8.0 computer.

 I did a shutdown -h now as root from an xterm and everything shutdown fine.

 Moved my desk and plugged my computer back in and tried to connect to the
 internet with /sbin/ifup ppp0 as root like i have always done and the
 modem picked up the phone line and dialed the number then almost before the
 first ring it hung up and linux responded with a somewhat cryptic Failed
 to connect (error 17).


 I cant find anything that describes exactly what error 17 is supposed to
 mean but all the settings have stayed exactly the same. I just shutdown the
 computer and moved it about 2.5 feet then plugged the power cable back up
 and turned the power on.

 Then only two cables i had to disconnect were the monitor and the power
 cable. Never touched the phone line.

 Also i can boot the workstation up into winblows and the modem works just
 fine.

 My hardware:

 HP Vectra 5 P120
 External USR 56k modem
 Mandrkae 8.0
 (dont think the rest is really relevant to this problem)

 This one has me really puzzled.

 Thanks in advance,
 Ian K. Harrell
 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



type, man pppd

this shows the help file for the pppd daemon.

extract:

  17 The PPP negotiation failed because serial loopback was detected. 

Dave.




Re: [newbie] Import Adressbook from Outlook to Evolution

2001-06-26 Thread DStevenson

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 12:19, OOzy Pal wrote:
 Hello

 Can any one tell me how can import my Outlook 2000 address book to
 Evolution?

 OOzy

I am not sure about Evolution but I transfered my 2000 data to KMail. 

I could not find a convertor from Outlook 2000, so I imported all my mail 
into Outlook express which was supported by most mail convertors for linux.

This may help.

Dave.




Re: [newbie] Import Adressbook from Outlook to Evolution

2001-06-26 Thread DStevenson

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 14:06, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote:
 Question:

 Did you import your mail from Outlook to KMail or also your Addresses to
 KAB?

 I am interested in the addresses more than my old mail.

 Thanks,

 Eric Indiogine
 Public Service Co. of NM

 On Tuesday 26 June 2001 15:32, DStevenson wrote:
  On Tuesday 26 June 2001 12:19, OOzy Pal wrote:
   Hello
  
   Can any one tell me how can import my Outlook 2000 address book to
   Evolution?
  
   OOzy
 
  I am not sure about Evolution but I transfered my 2000 data to KMail.
 
  I could not find a convertor from Outlook 2000, so I imported all my mail
  into Outlook express which was supported by most mail convertors for
  linux.
 
  This may help.
 
  Dave.

The address imported ok, but only as a list of blank emails, each one from a 
different contact. You can easily add them to your address book, by right 
clicking and select add to address book. The kmail address book is not very 
impressive though.

Dave.




Re: [newbie] Import Adressbook from Outlook to Evolution

2001-06-26 Thread DStevenson

On Tuesday 26 June 2001 17:05, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote:
 I have never been able to find out how to do this.  Where do you
 right-click to get the add to address book?  This would have saved me a
 lot of time. MS Outlook and Outlook express are able to do this.   How do
 you do this in Kmail???

 An other issue with Kmail is on how to set up mailing lists.  Never figured
 out on how to do this.  Easy in Outlook and Pine.

 Thanks,

 Eric Indiogine
 PNM

  The address imported ok, but only as a list of blank emails, each one
  from a different contact. You can easily add them to your address book,
  by right clicking and select add to address book. The kmail address book
  is not very impressive though.
 
  Dave.

In the configure-appearance-profiles select the new kde-2 features. Now 
when you hover over an email address, right click.

Dave.




Re: [newbie] ./ .... why?

2001-06-26 Thread DStevenson

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 06:47, Paul wrote:
 It was Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:49:01 EDT when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 It took a while to catch onto the ./ thingy..  now that I know it, I still
 don't understand *why* this is necessary.  I know, it's easy enough to add
  it to .bash_profile or wherever, but is there a justifiable reason why
  Linux makes you specify that the program you want to execute is in the
  current directory?

 Linux just does not assume the dir you are in as part of the path.
 Windoze/Dos do that.
 It is a safety catch. Suppose someone hacks your machine and adds an ls
 program to your home dir. And you do an ls. And this new ls only wipes
 out all the data you have access to. Not too nice, eh?

 Linux/Unix is about safety in the same way Windows is not.
 Paul

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If they can hack your system, then they can hack your path!!! Or you can add 
 a . into your path environment variable. Put the . at the end of the 
path entries and that way linux will search the other paths first but will 
always look in the current working directory last of all.

Dave.




Re: [newbie] Telnet command gone?

2001-06-24 Thread DStevenson

On Sunday 24 June 2001 12:02, Philip Loi wrote:
 Dear all,

 When I connected to my company network, it seems like
 the telnet command is missing? Can anyone tell me
 how to do rlogin to another server? Thanks.

 Regards,
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If you are saying that your system does not have the telnet command, then it 
may be that you have not installed it. If that is the case then open the 
mandrake software manager and search for telnet and install the rpm.

If it is your company network that is not responding, then it may be that the 
telnet daemon on that newtwork is not installed/configured. The telnet rules 
in the hosts files and or inetd.conf may not allow connections. It may be 
that there is a firewall on the remote system which is dis-allowing telnet 
sessions.

Dave.




Re: [newbie] gnome chess starting on login

2001-06-24 Thread DStevenson

On Sunday 24 June 2001 10:01, Dan Gordon wrote:
 I tryed the game gnome chess and now every time i login the game
 automatically starts up, how can i stop this ?

Just a thought, when logging of, do you restore the session? If you do, the 
system will restart processes which could just drag your system down in the 
long term. 

It might be way off, but it's just a thought.

Dave




Re: [newbie] Modules- install

2001-06-24 Thread DStevenson

On Sunday 24 June 2001 18:21, Jeffrey M. Reed wrote:
 On Sunday 24 June 2001 13:00, DStevenson wrote:
  Hi All,
 
  Does anyone know how to install new modules. I have
  downloaded the SG scsi modules and need to install them
  on my machine to hopefully solve a scanner problem. I
  have the files installed the drivers and include
  directories in the src tree, but that is as far as I
  know.
 
  Do I need to recompile the kernel? (No please)
 
 
  Any help would be really appreciated.
 
  Thanks...Dave

 that's why they're called modules my friend. you suimplly
 need to load them at boot time. this can be done by adding
 a simple one-liner to your /etc/modules.conf script or, if
 you're already up and running, you can try loading it
 manually by logging in as root and typing 'lsmod' to see
 what modules are already loaded and then use 'insmod' to
 try your new module. it's not necessary to compile into
 your kernel. i know that can be a real pain in the butt.

 good luck and don't forget about www.linuxdoc.org for lots
 of linux help!!!
The only reason I ask is that having looked at the kernel config file, I 
noticed a lot of info about the ai? scsi driver for the adaptec cards. 
This made me think that the current scsi drivers are in the kernel, and if 
so, will my new sg ones conflict? 

Being new to linux, this sort of thing just make me even more confused.  If 
the current ones are installed as modules, do I have to unload them before 
loading the new ones...I would have though so...but I know nothing!!!


Cheers...Dave.




[newbie] Sane Mandrake (Scanner)

2001-06-22 Thread DStevenson

I have had sane 1.0.4 installed and have only been able to scan gray mode. 
Color only gives a IO problem. 

Mandrakes cooker now has version 1.0.5 of the sane RPM's as well as 
version 0.78 of xsane. However, once I have removed the old software and 
re-installed with the lastest version, scanimage -V still reports 1.0.4. Is 
there a simple explanation?

Also, after doing a scanimage -T, the prompt does not return and the scanner 
light stays on for about ten minutes at which point the prompt returns. Color 
test completes but does not return prompt either. Previous version at least 
finished gray test?

Sorry for any bad english, my 18 month old daughter is helping me type this 
email.

Cheers,

Dave.

Mandrake 8
Adaptec SCSI AVA-2904
HP5p Scanner




[newbie] Scanner Blues and Red and Green

2001-06-21 Thread DStevenson

Hi all,

I have a real problem wih may scanner. The hardware is listed below:
P120 Chip with 160Meg Ram, Adaptec SCSI-2 card model AVA-2904
HP5p SCSI scanner.

The machine is networked and provides print and scanner services to my home 
network using Mandrake 8 on each network machine.

The scanner is perfectly fine when scanning in grey mode, but fails with an 
I/O error when attempting color scans. I have included the output from 
scanimage in test mode and also the dmesg output for the scsi card. The 
scanning software is SANE 1.0.4 and using the SANE-hp backend. I prefer to 
use scanimage from the command line so as to incorporate the commands in a 
batch file for quick scan to file turnaround.

Scanimage tests:

scanimage -T
scanimage: scanning image of size 2550x3507 pixels at 1 bits/pixel
scanimage: acquiring gray frame, 1 bits/sample
scanimage: reading one scanline, 319 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: reading one byte...  PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 2 bytes... PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 4 bytes... PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 8 bytes... PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 16 bytes...PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 32 bytes...PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 64 bytes...PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 128 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 256 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 512 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 511 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 255 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 127 bytes...   PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 63 bytes...PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 31 bytes...PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 15 bytes...PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 7 bytes... PASS
scanimage: stepped read, 3 bytes... PASS

scanimage -T --mode color
scanimage: scanning image of size 2550x3507 pixels at 24 bits/pixel
scanimage: acquiring RGB frame, 8 bits/sample
scanimage: reading one scanline, 7650 bytes...  FAIL Error: Error during 
device I/O

Dmesg output:

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:0f.0 to 32
ahc_pci:0:15:0: Host Adapter Bios disabled.  Using default SCSI device 
parameters
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.1.8
Adaptec 2902/04/10/15/20/30C SCSI adapter
aic7850: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/255 SCBs
 
  Vendor: HPModel: C5110ARev: 3701
  Type:   Processor  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
 
 
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0, type 3
scsi0:0:4:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:4:0: Command found on device queue
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi0:0:4:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
(scsi0:A:4:0): Queuing a recovery SCB
scsi0:0:4:0: Device is disconnected, re-queuing SCB
Recovery code sleeping
Recovery SCB completes
Recovery code awake
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi0:0:4:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message
scsi0:0:4:0: Command not found
aic7xxx_abort returns 8194
scsi0:0:4:0: Attempting to queue a TARGET RESET message
scsi0:0:4:0: Command not found
aic7xxx_dev_reset returns 8194

If anyone has any clue to what the problem could be, I would be really 
grateful.

Thanks,

Dave.