[Linux-parport] HP scanjet 5300C on SuSE 10.0

[J Fairbairn]

On 2005-12-12 at 17:53+0900 Irene Quintana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have an HP scanjet 5300C scanner and I have a SuSE 10.0
> open source system.  I want to connect use my scanner on
> my SuSE machine, but it is not auto detected.  I've been
> searching for solutions in the internet and found
> something about ppscsi.  I have downloaded the latest
> release of ppscsi from
> http://penguin-breeder.org/kernel/download/ But since I'm
> a newbie and not familiar with these stuff I'm reading I
> seem to be lost.
> 
> Can anyone help me configure my system?
> 
> It says in the README file that I should compile the
> modules with 'make' and so I did but after that I dont
> know what to do next, it just says load the modules, copy
> the modules (*.ko) to the modules directory but then I
> dont know where to find it.

I don't use SUSE, but it's probably something like
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel
(where $(uname -r) expands to give the version number of the running kernel)

If you (as root, in the directory where you compiled the modules) do 

mkdir /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ppscsi
cp -p *.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ppscsi/
depmod -a

Then subsequently calls to 

modprobe epst

should load all the required modules


Cheers,

  Jón

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Jón Fairbairn                              Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk