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SubjectRe: Printer-device configuration problems
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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