[LUG] Scanner access not easy

[Tony Atkin <tone_pl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been trying to set up a network scanning station using a scsi 
scanner and SANE on a Linux machine so that a single scanner can be used 
by people on other computers in the vicinity on mostly windows clients - 
with some success - sort of - things are still very flakey.  

I still have one major problem.  The scanner (epson GT9500) has an old ISA 
SCSI card.  I have not been able to figure out a way of getting the Linux 
box to load the kernel module for the scsi card (aha152x) automatically 
so I am reduced to the command line - modprobe aha152x .  Tried putting 
this in boot.local but just succeeded in disabling ethernet when it 
rebooted!! Don't ask me how that happened, the only connection I can 
think of is that they are both isa cards.

Module confuse me -- any ideas welcome

Running on SuSE 8.1

Cheers

Tony

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