Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: udev versus parallel-port Zip drive | From | Martin Schlemmer <> | Date | Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:08:18 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 23:55, walt wrote: > I've been fiddling with Zip-drive support -- both USB and > parallel-port. > > When I compile everything as modules I find that the > parallel-port driver for Zip drives (ppa) does not load > automatically. To make the parallel Zip drive work I > need to do a 'modprobe ppa' manually, after which everything > works as expected. > > I can only imagine the complexity involved in figuring out > what is attached to the parallel port at boot-time -- there > must be thousands of possibilities to sort through. > > My question, I suppose, is: what are the chances that a > parallel-port device can be automatically detected by udev > and the appropriate module loaded? Is this a pipe-dream? > Or maybe it should already work and I'm just omitting some > important steps? >
You can have a look at sys-apps/discover or sys-apps/kudzu for this.
Regards,
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Martin Schlemmer
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