I faced the same problem just a few days back. I bought a new web camera for my small "robotic eye". It was cool, nice looking, tiny webcam. My first question to the vendor was if that would work
with linux. The box said it would and I too happily bought that camera for 750 bucks. I came to
home popped in the CD and was little luckier than you as I had install.sh in place. I ran the script
and the "insmod" denied to load that little binary driver!
My point is the vendors are providing the the binary versions of the drivers, which _won't_ work
on the system that are not *exact* copy of the systems they were built on. For which the chances
are miniscule. I also wrote to the vendor of the webcam for the new version or the source code so
that I can compile the driver myself against my kernel version. But to no avail.
Just to quote Linus on the same topic:
"I allow binary-only modules, but I want people to know that they are _only_ ever expected to work
on the one version of that kernel that they were compiled for. Anything else is just a very nice
unexpected bonus if it happens to work."
This is what I did in my case -- I happily returned the webcam back and bought the linux compliant
Logitech quickcam which is serving my purpose. And only other way I can think of is reverse
engineering.
May be you will have to search for another printer?
Anyways, best of luck!
Regards
--Himanshu
On 3/10/06, Tarun Kant <tarunkant@...> wrote:
H i All,
I have recently bought a new Xerox Phaser 3117 laser printer for my office. The advertisement and the printer brochure all were loudly claiming Linux support and full compatibility and I gladly bought it.
Tried installing the printer on my office PC running Mandriva LE 2005. The printer was auto detected but the model was not listed. Infact none of the models from the Phaser range is listed in the driver database on Mandriva.
Next I tried following the instructions given in user manual. To my disappointment the file 'setup.sh' is missing from the software CD that came with the printer. Though the CD face clearly mentions both Linux and Windows on it. I wrote to the company, but did not receive any reply back.
Tried a lot of different things, but could not make the printer to work. Has any one got any idea on what to do now or experience with this printer model. Please let me know if anyone can help.
Cheers,
-Tarun
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