>Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk>:
>> I thought you had everything linked in statically?
>
>I did. I switched to modules at the recommendation of another poster.
>
>It helped. I can now print, *if* I manually load lp and parport. What
>I'm still trying to understand is (a) why it didn't work with lp/parport
>hard-compiled in, and (b) why the modules aren't automatically loaded
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>when lpr writes to /dev/lp0.
You need:
echo alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc >>/etc/conf.modules
Also be sure to have run depmod -a.
Please try again with everything compiled in the kernel after a make dep
clean.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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