we had a scsi scanner that worked on one of our linux boxes, although it needed tweaking (the SANE driver and the Linux Kernel) ...
Linux also lacks a lot of networking support, and i was only using the 2.0 kernel (my hacks wouldn't port) ...
we wanted to get it working on a solaris box for a long time, we tried from solaris 2.6 upwards; trying to use the schilling drivers to get the scanner recognised; but in most cases the machine crashed when the schilling driver was 'installed'.
i tried again on monday last week, whe our linux box crashed (physically abused by user style crash) on a solaris 8 x86 machine.
I installed the schilling driver with no crash, but with no device to connect to, i tweaked the driver configuration file and got a device ... but the device didn't work.
after a lot of delving i removed the shilling driver and edited the 'sgen.conf' file that comes with the sgen driver (SCSI Generic)
the sgen driver allows controlled access to specific types of scsi device at specific nodes on the scsi controller, and allows access to the device at the permissions of the /devices pointer.
after about 1/2 minute playing with the configuration file i had the scanner installed and working with SANE.
i'm just writing to say that that 1/2 minute using a nice ratified driver was a hell of a lot better than having to hack the linux kernel that some guy wrote to power his UMAX scanner ... and it looks like it should work with alomost all SCSI scanners.
Linux also lacks a lot of networking support, and i was only using the 2.0 kernel (my hacks wouldn't port) ...
we wanted to get it working on a solaris box for a long time, we tried from solaris 2.6 upwards; trying to use the schilling drivers to get the scanner recognised; but in most cases the machine crashed when the schilling driver was 'installed'.
i tried again on monday last week, whe our linux box crashed (physically abused by user style crash) on a solaris 8 x86 machine.
I installed the schilling driver with no crash, but with no device to connect to, i tweaked the driver configuration file and got a device ... but the device didn't work.
after a lot of delving i removed the shilling driver and edited the 'sgen.conf' file that comes with the sgen driver (SCSI Generic)
the sgen driver allows controlled access to specific types of scsi device at specific nodes on the scsi controller, and allows access to the device at the permissions of the /devices pointer.
after about 1/2 minute playing with the configuration file i had the scanner installed and working with SANE.
i'm just writing to say that that 1/2 minute using a nice ratified driver was a hell of a lot better than having to hack the linux kernel that some guy wrote to power his UMAX scanner ... and it looks like it should work with alomost all SCSI scanners.