ppscsi patch needed for scanner

mlybarger · Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 480

i have a HP 5100C scanner which uses the parallel port, and i'm of the impression that I need to use the ppscsi patch to the kernel to get this scanner to work. Do any gentooer's use this patch? it was last maintained by Tim at RH, but he's not maintaining it any longer. I can't get it to apply cleanly to the 2.4.20 vanilla sources. any helps would be most certainly appreciated.

i found the patch at a debin link that should apply to a 2.4 kernel

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-patch-ppscsi-2.4/

afterstep · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2003 Posts: 2

I solved open the patch file, understand what faile will be modified and applyed manually the change.

So I have edited drivers/scsi/Config.in and drivers/scsi/Makefile
Create new file in drivers/scsi :
epsa2.c
epst.c
onscsi.c
ppscsi.c
sparcsi.c
t348.c
t358.c
vpi0.c
vpi2.c

Then I enabled PPSCSI with make menuconfig (all module except vpi2)
Rebuid kernel + modules + reboot_new_kernel
To use HP 5100C insmod the modules :
ppscsi
epst

Good Luck ;-)

PS : I suggest CONFIG_PREEMPT=y with this scanner !!