Connecting an external DVDRW & Scanner???

I am having a tough time with my G3 iBook. This is my first Apple and I am often lost. I added memory shortly after buying it-it came with 128 MB and I added 256MB. I received an HP Printer/Scanner/Copier for Xmas - it required an upgrade to 10.3 - which thanks to finding this forum I finally figured out and ordered from AppleRescue. I installed it fine and everything but the scanner is working at this point - could it be that I don't have enough memory? I click on the scanner icon but nothing happens. Any thoughts?
The next part of the question - is I bought a LaCie LightScribe DVDRW 16X to store all the photos I scan(hopefully) and home movies I download - rather that the harddrive but that is not going well. I noticed that I should have 10.3.9 so I am going to have to update, but that aside my iBook keeps spitting out the driver software without any kind of message- I think it is maybe a DVD which having a CD-R only - I'm stuck.
Thanks for any help you can give.

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Adding a 512 MB RAM module would have been much better than the 256 MB. You will have less problems if you maximize the RAM.
What is the MHz rating of the iBook?
What size is the hard drive and how much space remains available on it?
Have you tried going to LaCie's website to see if they may have a driver available for download?
The same thing may be true of HP's website for the scanner. They may have an updated driver there that will work for you.
Good luck.

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