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| 87306 | 2002-10-08 23:15:00 | Running Redhat 7.3 with a 2.4.18-3 kernel I have an HP Scanjet 5 with a sym53c416 scsi card Redhat does not automatically pick up the card (When I run Sane or xsane it comes back with the no devices message) I have done a lot of research but most of it is still unintelligible to this reader! However, 2.4.18-3 appears to support sym53c416 (there is a sym53c416.h and (I think from memory) .c in /usr/src/linux2.4.18-3/drivers and the config.in (? from memory again) has a line that mentions sym53c416 The question is how do I get RH to actually recognise the card? TIA |
Shroeder (492) | ||
| 87307 | 2002-10-08 23:20:00 | Hi shroeder, I'm not familiar with Redhat, but with Mandrake it asks about setting up SCSI cards during installation - I'm wondering if you selected it during installation or not, or have you installed it since then and are now trying to get it to work? Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 87308 | 2002-10-08 23:26:00 | Hi Mike I can't remember whether RH asked about it during installation (I've been having a bit of fun recently and installed Mandrake (older version) Debian Woody and Redhat 7.3 onto the machine - each a number of times!!!) One of the distros did "look" for scsi cards (but didn't find this one), and another distro gave me some options (I chose sym53c416) but it then said it couldn't locate it!!! The scanner is the last thing I need to be able to set up to have a system that truly competes with the Win98SE that is also set up Cheers Shroeder |
Shroeder (492) | ||
| 87309 | 2002-10-08 23:32:00 | RTLM ... RT "Lovely" M :D You have the source code, but probably not the module/driver. Only the most common hardware has drivers compiled by default. You will certainly have drivers for Adaptec cards. Do "find /lib/modules/ -name sym53c416.o". Or "locate sym53c*" if you have the locate database. If it's there, it should have been loaded, but try "insmod sym53c415" If you haven't got the module, you will need to compile the kernel and the appropriate modules (or even include the driver into the kernel). It's not a major thing ... and the HOWTO is quite clear. ;-) Have a look in the src/.../drivers/... directory for a README about that card. I'd include the SCSI card code into the kernel. |
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