plustek@linuxhacker.org

On Montag, 9. Juni 2003 17:33, J Y wrote:
> Hi, I lost my system awhile back (because I was editing etc/fstab to get a
> tape drive recognized)

Ups - bad luck!

> Orginally I had used one of the howto's at the sane plustek site for
> getting my Optic pro 9636T to work. I'm using SuSE 8.1 and I wonder if I
> need to configure the kernal for loadable module support or not? 

is already configured in the standard SuSE kernel!

>Some
> recent instructions don't mention doing the kernal compling. Can I just do
> the ./configure, make, make install and load the pt.drv module and get it
> to work?  Backend = Sane 1.12. Thanks JY

Anyway, there's no need in kernel-compiling. Check the installed SANE
installation and then select the pt_drv source you need. Checkout also
one of the Howtos from www.gjaeger.de

This should enable you to setup your scanner again
  Gerhard


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