Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:53:22 -0500 (EST) | From | billy ball <> | Subject | Re: Parallel port on Dell Latitude |
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Jim Roland wrote:
> Okay. I combined Adrian's and Billy's info, and it works. Strange. In > kernel 2.2.14 Ihad to install as a module, even though I told menuconfig > that I wanted it as a non-module. There are not any docs that I could see > to tell me this (not in parport.txt nor lp.c), but the same thing happened > with my sound card. It had options for module or no-module (compiled in as > regular kernel stuff), but the README for my sound card (Neomagic 256AV) > said it *HAS* to be compiled as module. When I compiled the sound as > module, it worked great. IS LP like this from now on?
no... some distros install a 'broken' /etc/conf.modules... using Red Hat? use:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
hth
> > > > > -=>Jim Roland > > "Never settle with words what you can settle with a flamethrower." > --Anonymous > > > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, billy ball wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 22:15:07 -0500 (EST) > > From: billy ball <bball@staffnet.com> > > To: Jim Roland <jim@roland.net> > > Cc: linux-laptop@vger.rutgers.edu > > Subject: Re: Parallel port on Dell Latitude > > > > > > > > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jim Roland wrote: > > > > > I am trying to configure a printer port on my Dell Latitude CPi R400 (newer > > > P2-400s). I assume it's the standard LPT port at 0x378 and irq 7. Howver, > > > compiling kernel 2.2.14 with parallel port support installed as with my > > > home PC (which works), lpd and printtool do not recognize /dev/lp0 or > > > /dev/lp1. > > > > > > IS there a special trick to making it work on this machine? > > > > perhaps: > > > > insmod parport > > insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 > > insmod lp > > > > ??? > > > > > > > > > > > -=>Jim Roland > > > > > > "Never settle with words what you can settle with a flamethrower." > > > --Anonymous > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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