[sane-devel] Scanner Basics

[Karl F. Larsen]

Hi Karl, I will need to read a man page for hotplug. I really don't 
understand your example.


On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:55:41PM -0700, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > Hi Karl, I find to get scanner into the kernel I must have something in 
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, and that something can include the vendor and 
> > product. If you can tell me how to load the scanner module alone some 
> > other way I'm listening. I could read 
> > /usr/src/linux/documentation/modules again but I'm tired of all that 
> > today...:-)
> 
> Put a line like this into the file /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap. The second numeric
> argument is the vendor ID, the third is the product ID. The whole thing is
> one line. It's probably easier to just copy one line that starts with the
> driver name "scanner" and duplicate it, and then modify the vendor and
> product IDs. 
> scanner              0x0003 0x04b8   0x010f    0x0000       0x0000       0x00         0x00            0x00            0x00            0x00            0x00            0x00000000
> 
> Red Hat 8.0 does have hotplug support, as does SuSE 8.x. I would assume
> that pretty much all modern Linux distributions also come with hotplug
> enabled.
> 
> Karl Heinz
> 

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