RTFM, again... Was: ppscsi

ShieldX plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:42:40 -0700


Yet another reason to _not_ try weird, unworkable stuff late at night,
especially with old patches...
I rested, got a good patch, still doesn't work...
My scanner isn't listed in SANE so
screw the parallel crud, 'cause I'm going SCSI...

Soon.....


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>On Thursday 27 March 2003 08:41 PM, I wrote:
>Does anyone know where to get a [working] kernel patch for the ppscsi
>drivers?
>
>I'm doing this to get my cheap scanner to work under linux but
>the patch I got off of the SANE website seems to be for Kernel 2.2.10,
>and 'fails' an important looking hunk destined for the makefile
>which seems to tie the stuff together,
>
>A kernel recompile, using a stock 2.4.20, revealed that the ppscsi modules
>weren't compiled with the rest, probably due to the makefile reject.