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Subject: Re: problems to load modules with opticpro 1236p
From: Gerhard Jaeger
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:25:24 +0200

On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:56, Eric Barons wrote:
[SNIPSNAP]
> - Afterwards, a <scanimage -L> does not find any scanner, as excepted after
> that error.
>
> After this procedure failed, I also tried the other way:
> I deleted the Sane which came along with knoppix 3.3 and compiled and
> installed everthing manually. The problem is, everything was exactly as
> listed above: It worked fine until the <make load> operation and stopped
> there with the same-  (for me ununderstandable) error.
>
The problem is, that your scanner is not detected. This is a common problem
with some parallelport hardware.
Check you BIOS setting, that they are set correctly to SPP or EPP, avoid any
ECP stuff.

Gerhard