[SWLUG] Getting my scanner working

[Tony Pursell]

On 22 Feb 2005 at 22:47, Tony Pursell wrote:

> On 22 Feb 2005 at 20:40, Jonathan Price wrote:
> 
> > It looks like it might be a problem with udev (the system that
> > dynamically manages your /dev folder), as the /.dev is where udev
> > puts your static dev directory. Your best bet would be to try the
> > udev or ubuntu lists, to see if it is an known issue with that
> > device. (I am fairly sure that ubuntu uses udev)
> 
> Thanks Jono.  I'll have a look at that - I really do need some
> pointers to the way modern Linux manages devices.  Its obviously quite
> different to the way devices were managed in the unix of old.  
> However, I'm wondering if the fact that I didn't have the scanner
> switched on when I installed Ubuntu means that the generic scsi
> devices were flagged as not needed at runtime, in some way.
> 

The Ubuntu list was very helpful.  The basic problem is not having the 
'sg' module loaded.  Once that is loaded by putting it in /etc/modules, 
/dev/sg0 gets created (or rather the kernel puts the information in the 
/sys directory for udev to create it). 

Thanks again

Tony Pursell