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> >>+    LPT 		Printer support is enabled.
> >>+ parport= [HW,LP]
> >>+ plip= [LP,NET] Parallel port network link.
> >>+ lp= [LPT] Parallel Printer.
>
> > If `LP' and `LPT' are supposed to be the same, this is bogus.
>
>They were all meant to be LPT rather than LP. Also, I'm not quite sure
>what you mean by "this is bogus", so if you could explain, it would be
>appreciated.

You've got the order of things backwards. Printer support and PLIP (and a few
other things) depend on parport, and parport doesn't depend on anything other
than the presence of the hardware. It's perfectly reasonable to have PLIP
configured in but not the lp driver.

p.



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