Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:55:44 -0800 | From | walt <> | Subject | udev versus parallel-port Zip drive |
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I've been fiddling with Zip-drive support -- both USB and parallel-port.
When I compile everything as modules I find that the parallel-port driver for Zip drives (ppa) does not load automatically. To make the parallel Zip drive work I need to do a 'modprobe ppa' manually, after which everything works as expected.
I can only imagine the complexity involved in figuring out what is attached to the parallel port at boot-time -- there must be thousands of possibilities to sort through.
My question, I suppose, is: what are the chances that a parallel-port device can be automatically detected by udev and the appropriate module loaded? Is this a pipe-dream? Or maybe it should already work and I'm just omitting some important steps?
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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