Re: [Sheflug] Assorted newbie problems

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Sammy Redshaw wrote:

> Hi I am wondering if any one know how to get the  parport zipdrive and
> printer started at boot in mandrake 7
> Umm I have got the devices working together no promblem by typing in
> modprobe parport && modprobe imm && modprobe lp

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig

The options for parallel port support and Zip drive (new) support will be
labelled 'M' - press 'Y' to turn them to '*', which means they are
compiled into the kernel.

The alternative is to stick everything in conf.modules (or modules.conf,
depending on your system IIRC) - there's no reason to recompile the kernel
if the modules work.

You'll need lines like these:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

Include similar lines for the Zip and lp module (remembering to load Zip
first - also, the lp module will probably need to be told what port to use
with an 'options' line). There are loads of documents on the web about how
to play around with your modules configuration.

Cheers,

Alex.

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