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List:       mandrake-newbie
Subject:    Re: [newbie] Hardware questions
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () tiscali ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-06-17 16:47:28
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Michael Adams wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 01:51, Brian Parish wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 20:18, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>Two problems, possibly related:
>>>
>>>1)   In /dev there is an entry scanner@, which is flashing red.  What
>>>does this mean?  It may be connected with the fact that my CanoScan
>>>FS2710, a scsi film scanner, is recognised at boot-up, but that is as
>>>far as I have got with it.
>>>
>>>
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>Well I can say that the flashing red bit means that the link is broken.
>>i.e. this is a symbolic link that is pointing to a file that doesn't
>>exist.  Finding out where it should point would be a good start.  :-)
>>
> 
> If the scanner is turned off the file being pointed to will not exist. Turn 
> the scanner on and try "ls" again.
> 

I must have guessed wrong, then.  Scanner is still flashing red.

Anne







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