Re: Parport zipdrive support broken in 2.2.9 ? NOT !!

Gabriel (gabriel@pixle.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:08:49 +0000

Tim,
you are right - I was compiling plip as a module. I had wrongly assumed
this was only necessary for parallel port networking. The Zip-Drive mini
HOWTO makes no mention of parallel driver.

Anyway thanks for your help it's all working now :-)

Gabriel.

Tim Waugh wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Gabriel wrote:
>
> > I recently purchased a parallel port Zipdrive (one of the older 100Meg
> > jobbies) and reconfigured my kernel. I switched on SCSI support, SCSI
> > drive support and parport Zip support. When I tried to compile the
> > kernel (2.2.9) I got the attached errors.
>
> How did you configure the kernel -- config, xconfig, menuconfig or
> oldconfig? This basically looks like parport support isn't enabled at
> all (CONFIG_PARPORT). Check in .config for the parport-related options.
> When you're linking everything into the kernel you'll want a low-level
> port driver such as CONFIG_PARPORT_PC too, of course.
>
> Tim.
> */

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