> I don't know whether either of these have been fixed in 2.0.11,
> but I suspect they haven't. Comments welcome:
>
> 1) I ran 'strings /proc/kcore | less' once and the system seemed
> to die horribly. Someone might want to check this out, but I'm
> not sure if it's reproducible because I'm not willing to try
> it again :)
>
Hmm, works fine for me ....
> 2) The lp driver seems to behave badly when my printer is turned
> on. I'm using an HP DeskJet 540. Basically, when the driver
> is installed (I've seen the same behavior via module or built-in
> support), it will say
>
> lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found.
>
> instead of
>
> lp1 at 0x378 (polling)
>
> In short, the driver only starts correctly if I have the printer
> off when it starts. This is a bug, right? :)
>
Hmm, proberbly get's things wrong when the printer is on, try loading
like so:
~# insmod lp io=,0x378 irq=,7
irq 7 is the default, and the commas are important, or you'll have that
port called lp0 (but if that's ok ....;).
As an added bonus you'll get the parallel port set to use irq's rather
than being polled (tunelp lp1 -i 7 would do the same thing after you were
told it was going to poll).
If that works for you, you can put it in your /etc/conf.modules:
options lp io=,0x378 irq=,7
Bryn
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