Re: [newbie] Acer 'Prisa' 620ST Scanner
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, A.M. (Tony) Finnis wrote: Hi All - I have recently obtained an Acer 620ST Scanner which works OK under Windows. This scanner has an 'Acard' AEC6710D PCI Ultra - SCSI-3 adapter, which from the 'Acard Technology' website uses the atp870u.o driver. On inspection in 'Mandrake 6.0', this file is located in :- /lib/modules/2.2.9-19mdk/scsi/atp870u.o Can someone please advise me the correct procedures to get this scanner up and running under linux. I have looked at the 'sane' info and website and also all driver module information I have been able to find, but being a relative newbie to linux, I am rather confused. Any information and help regarding the above will be much appreciated. I had to install a SCSI card after I'd built my system (needed to FDISK a SCSI drive that Windows wouldn't let me FDISK because it had OS/2 on the drive!) and I played around and did an "insmod advansys.o" from the appropriate directory and then mounted the hard drive on a mount point I'd created for it. However, I'm not sure how to get that module PERMANENTLY installed, although I suspect it would be something you could add to the boot script. Right now I don't need to have SCSI support on a regular basis, so I'm not worried about it. But, that should get you started in the right direction. As always, RTFM will be your best bet. :-)
Re: [newbie] Acer 'Prisa' 620ST Scanner
Isn't that something you'd add to '/etc/modules.conf'? I might be wrong, but the impression I got is that that's where you put the 'insmod' to load a module on boot. Bear in mind, I'm still new at this, so I might be wrong. - Theo John Aldrich wrote: I had to install a SCSI card after I'd built my system (needed to FDISK a SCSI drive that Windows wouldn't let me FDISK because it had OS/2 on the drive!) and I played around and did an "insmod advansys.o" from the appropriate directory and then mounted the hard drive on a mount point I'd created for it. However, I'm not sure how to get that module PERMANENTLY installed, although I suspect it would be something you could add to the boot script. Right now I don't need to have SCSI support on a regular basis, so I'm not worried about it. But, that should get you started in the right direction. As always, RTFM will be your best bet. :-)
Re: [newbie] Acer 'Prisa' 620ST Scanner
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, you wrote: Isn't that something you'd add to '/etc/modules.conf'? I might be wrong, but the impression I got is that that's where you put the 'insmod' to load a module on boot. Bear in mind, I'm still new at this, so I might be wrong. Well, I *did* say RTFM would be the best bet. :-) Seriously, insmod is a command to TEMPORARILY (I believe) insert a module that is not in the modules.conf (thanks for telling me where to put a new module I need to load at boot G) From the insmod man page: DESCRIPTION Insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel. Insmod tries to link a module into the running kernel by resolving all symbols from the kernel's exported symbol table. If the object file name is given without extension, insmod will search for the module in some common default directories. The environment variable MODPATH can be used to override this default.
