plustek: Thread: Installation Frustration

Sorry if this has already been brought up a thousand times... I didn't
see archives anywhere on linuxhacker.org - 

Anyway, I'm trying to get a Plustek 4800P working through SANE, and I'm
pulling my hair out - was hoping somebody could give some advice.

I -thought- I followed all the steps correctly, but when I get to the
make-load, it gives me this:

/sbin/modprobe pt_drv || exit 1
sh: modprobe: command not found
modprobe: pre-install pt_drv failed
modprobe: insmod pt_drv failed
make: *** [load] Error 1

What am I missing?

Thanks!


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Hi,

the archives can be found at:
http://www.linuxhacker.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/3

Did you perform the make load step as root user???
If yes, then have you installed the mod-utils???
That's normally all! The Makefile could not find the
modprobe utility...

Hope this helps
  Gerhard

On Friday, 3. May 2002 04:29, Steven Sforza wrote:
> Sorry if this has already been brought up a thousand times... I didn't
> see archives anywhere on linuxhacker.org -
>
> Anyway, I'm trying to get a Plustek 4800P working through SANE, and I'm
> pulling my hair out - was hoping somebody could give some advice.
>
> I -thought- I followed all the steps correctly, but when I get to the
> make-load, it gives me this:
>
> /sbin/modprobe pt_drv || exit 1
> sh: modprobe: command not found
> modprobe: pre-install pt_drv failed
> modprobe: insmod pt_drv failed
> make: *** [load] Error 1
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks!

Actually it didn't get me completely going, but it got me closer - the
modprobe error came from /sbin not being in my path (apparantly even
though I could run /sbin/modprobe manually, the install script wasn't so
smart) - and then, oddly enough, I had to run "make install" 3 times,
but on the 3rd time it took.
I can do a "scanimage -L" and it detects the scanner (as the wrong
model, it shows it as a 6000 and it's a 4800, but at least it detects
it)
But - as soon as I run scanimage without the -L switch, it complains
that there is no scanner. xscanimage gives the same result. Is there
something else I missed? The install docs that come with the plustek
drivers seem to assume that once you've done a successful "scanimage -L"
than all is clear, but that doesn't appear to be the case on my PC...
Any ideas?



On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 01:39, Jaeger, Gerhard wrote:
> Did you perform the make load step as root user???
> If yes, then have you installed the mod-utils???
> That's normally all! The Makefile could not find the
> modprobe utility...
> 
> Hope this helps
>   Gerhard
> 
> On Friday, 3. May 2002 04:29, Steven Sforza wrote:
> > Sorry if this has already been brought up a thousand times... I didn't
> > see archives anywhere on linuxhacker.org -
> >
> > Anyway, I'm trying to get a Plustek 4800P working through SANE, and I'm
> > pulling my hair out - was hoping somebody could give some advice.
> >
> > I -thought- I followed all the steps correctly, but when I get to the
> > make-load, it gives me this:
> >
> > /sbin/modprobe pt_drv || exit 1
> > sh: modprobe: command not found
> > modprobe: pre-install pt_drv failed
> > modprobe: insmod pt_drv failed
> > make: *** [load] Error 1
> >
> > What am I missing?
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
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-- 
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a
tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked. His response was a question: "Where
do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't
matter." - Lewis Carroll