> The only think I can think of is there's another program, more
> specifically a TSR that's running resident in the background causing
> modprobe to report with this error. Are you sure that you don't
> have lpd running in the background and that you have unloaded any
> other possibly conflicting modules that may take up your IRQ or use
> the parrallel port?
I killed lpd and rmmod lp. Now lsmod gives me:
Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 39940 0 (autoclean)
bsd_comp 3568 0 (autoclean)
appletalk 17472 0 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean)
sg 4080 0 (unused)
ppp 18956 2 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp]
slhc 4392 1 [ppp]
dummy 716 0 (unused)
serial 19852 2
parport_probe 2884 0 (autoclean) (unused)
unix 10012 9 (autoclean)
parport 7028 0 [parport_probe]
vfat 11408 1
smbfs 25944 0 (unused)
nfs 30136 0 (unused)
lockd 31240 0 [nfs]
sunrpc 52420 0 [nfs lockd]
Trying modprobe ppa still gives the 'Device or resource busy' error.
The drive works under windows 95. There the parallel port uses IRQ 7.
here in linux cat /proc/interrupts gives:
CPU0
0: 168531 XT-PIC timer
1: 2588 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 43548 XT-PIC serial
4: 1906 XT-PIC serial
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
13: 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 90398 XT-PIC ide0
15: 4 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
Any other suggestions?
Stef
