Problem with SCSI scanner

[Paul Howarth]

Bob Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 02:02 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> 
>>| From: Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
>>
>>| What type of scanner do you have?
>>| 
>>| Please post the output of:
>>| # udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sg0)
>>
>>Sure.  What does this tell you?
> 
> 
> It tells me how to write a udev rule that will create an appropriate
> link for your scanner at boot time :-)
> 
> ************************
> 
> I'm running Fedora Core 3.
> I have an HP 5P scanner which /var/log/messages says:
> 
> Vendor: HP        Model: C5110A            Rev: 3701
> 
> Xsane returns an error "no devices found". I then typed the above
> udevinfo command which returned the message:
> 
> "couldn't get the class device"
> 
> Apparently udev isn't initializing this scanner. I tried using MAKEDEV -
> x sg without luck. Can I get some help? I really need to get this
> scanner working.

Do you have the "sg" kernel module loaded?

# modprobe sg

Paul.