Re: 2.2.0pre5: parport as module
Sang Kang (kernel@mocha.sarang.net)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:51:06 -0800
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 08:10:54PM -0600, Brian Ryner wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I think I've seen similar reports to this on the list before, but I
> never noticed any resolution to it. Anyway, my problem is that my
> printing works fine if I compile the parallel port support into the
> kernel, but not if I compile it as a module (parport.o + parport_pc.o).
> When I compile it as a module, the module autoloads when necessary, but
> lpq still reports that the printer is offline. It's definitely one of
> these modules causing it, as I have lp.o as a module in both cases.
> Anyone know why this would happen?
>
I believe there is a documentation in the source code somewhere, but anyway,
here's my parport entry in /etc/conf.modules. HTH,
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto
Sang Kang
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