Re: udev versus parallel-port Zip drive
From: Martin Schlemmer
Date: Thu Mar 04 2004 - 12:08:54 EST
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 23:55, walt wrote:
> 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?
>
You can have a look at sys-apps/discover or sys-apps/kudzu
for this.
Regards,
--
Martin Schlemmer
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