unseen added devices

Ed Fletcher ed at fletcher.ca
Tue May 3 02:28:36 UTC 2005


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taeb wrote:
| I have been gifted an old scanner (MicroTek SancMaker E3) and an old
| laser printer (HP LaserJet 5MP).  I've looked at various web sites, and
| sane says the scanner is "good" supported, and linuxprinting.org says
| the printer works "perfectly".  I figured I would plug them in, boot,
| and they'd be recognized during boot, and I'd be off to the races.
| There must be more to it than that. :)
|
| My system: Mac 7300 w/G3 upgrade, running Hoary.
|
| I plugged the printer into a serial port after verifying the printer
| worked under Mac OS.  When I tried to configure it using the
| gnome->System->Administration->Printing facility, it did not find any
| local printer.  /dev/ttyS[01] are present, but sending a small file to
| them using cat does not produce any output.  dmesg says they were found
| during boot:
| ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf3013020 (irq = 15) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port
| ttyS1 at MMIO 0xf3013000 (irq = 16) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port
|
| Similary for the scanner -- a scsi device -- gnome's Xsane image scanning
| device does not see it.  It's been a while since I've tried it -- mostly
| trying to get the printer to work -- so I don't recall what all I've
| tried with it.
|
| I'm guessing that -- at the very least -- I need to load a module or two
| -- but I have not come across the magic document to indicate what I need
| to do.  Any help or pointers to same would be very much appreciated at
| this point.
|
| Thanks in advance,
| tony
|

I don't have a Mac, but I would think that adding a printer will be the
same in any case.

When you run the Add Printer tool, does it offer you the choice of a
local printer on a serial port?

Ed
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Ed Fletcher
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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