Re: lp: am I dumb?

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:51:53 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote:

>Am I missing something or is kmod not quite working right yet? If I
>"modprobe lp", it loads the parport and parport_pc drivers correctly,
>but if I depend on it autoloading (IE, cat > /dev/lp0 or whatever),
>the parport_pc driver does not load and the lp device doesn't work. I
>DO have parport_lowlevel aliased to parport_pc :)

kmod is buggy and it is in fixing stage.

>Is there a workaround, or do I just have to load lp manually when I
>want to print?

The workaround is this:

post-install parport modprobe -k parport_pc

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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