Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Sep 1998 19:43:05 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Printer-device configuration problems |
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>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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