Re: [K12OSN] Scanner setup

[Tim Litwiller <tim litwiller net>]

Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
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> > Here's how I did it on RHL9, K12LTSP 2.1.2, and Slackware.  It's the
> > same procedure for all three.
> >
> > First, power down your machine and hook up your scanner.  Then reboot.
> > This allows Kudzu to detect it.  Once the server's booted and you're in
> > the GUI, click Start (well, the GNOME, KDE, or red hat icon, depending
> > on your distro version), Run Command, and then enter "xsane".
> >
> > Anyhoo, after you do the above, XSane will come up and present you with
> > a device or devices to choose from.  In my case (a UMAX 2100 SCSI
> > device), it gives me two device names to choose from for the same
> > scanner, and I've learned that it doesn't matter which one you pick,
> > 'cause one's the actual device name, and the other's just a symlink.
> > And yes, the GIMP can and does interface with XSane very nicely, just
> > like Adobe Photoshop does with scanner software on Windows.  It's neat.
> > Play around with it.
> >
> >    
> Terrell,
> 	and now please extend it to work when the scanner is connected to
> a terminal ;-)
> julius
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sane is supposed to come with saned which is the network daemon - so it 
should just be a matter of configuration for it to work on a client.