Re: USB scanner woes

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 17:48:01 -0500
rwhart <rwhart netexpress net> wrote:

> Hi,
>   I am trying to install a scanner on a new RH 7.3 install for my boy.
>   
>  RH is stock 7.3 on newly formatted HD.  I find a module named 
> 'scanner.o' in '/lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/usb'.  The
> scanner is correctly reported as an Epson with prodID of 0110.
>   I have tried 'insmod scanner.o vendor=04b8 product=0110' but it 
> reports back that the modules can't be found.

Try simply "modprobe scanner" or "insmod scanner" instead. If you type
it the way you show, it lloks for scanner.o.o which doesn't exist.

Usually modprobe is better since it should settle all other
dependencies.

>   My questions:
>     1.  If the module is seen as above, does this mean
>         a.  that it is compiled into the kernel?
>         b.  that it should be available and be able to be found with
>         insmod?

Not compiled in, nut compiled with. And is available.

>     2.  In passing paramaters to scanner.o with insmod do I need to 
> prefix the appropriate identification numbers with 0x to denote hex 
> notation?

Don't know. Not sure you really need to pass parameters, since it's
installing from the usb directory and should already know what it is.
I'd think it would work as I said above, but I'm no authority on USB.

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