USB drivers for scanners and CF/SD memory

[XrayVision]

I have found one page with how-to's/info on USB scanners for Linux.

Sane by Henning meier-geinitz for scanners

Can anyone direct me to other sources of drivers for USB devices, including CF/SD and scanners.

Thanks

 

[krale]

---Sane by Henning meier-geinitz for scanners

I know you didnt ask, but for printing, CUPS is the best. CUPS is the Common Unix Printing System.

---Can anyone direct me to other sources of drivers for USB devices, including CF/SD and scanners.

Actually, you've already got the drivers.If your USB works now, you need to SU to root and do the following:

modprobe usb-storage
modprobe printer (these last 2 are usb type)
modprobe scanner

Also, if you add the last part (scanner, usb-storage..) to /etc/modules, they will be loaded in your system at startup.

Now about the memory cards: I cant confirm this, but I believe they're considered plain old USB storage. They will be on the scsi chain (whether it's /dev/srXX or /dev/sdXX I dont know). All you need to do is put in your /etc/fstab the basic data about the fle system.

Here's an example:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/memslot1 auto user,rw 0 0

For prep, just make a directory called memslot1 in /mnt . Still, it might be a different /dev/ device.It has auto so linux can automatically pick up the partition type. The user,noauto,rw just makes it so you can write to it and any user can use it.

---Thanks

Hopefully, this is easy to understand. No problem ;-) Please let Tek-Tips members know if their posts were helpful.

 

[zeland]

In RedHat8, my flash card reader would show up as sdb1 but now under Mandrake9 I only get sdb only! I can't mount sdb. What happened to sdb1, why doesn't Mandrake generate the device?!

 

[XrayVision]

OK, I found the modules and used insmod to test them, they work! Now, exactly to which file do you add the commands to load the modules at startup? "/etc/Modules.conf"? The syntax in that file is also very terse. Any guidance on what the command is?

Thanks