On my system, to get around this situation, I installed the paraport modules during the initial install and used modconf later to add lp.
bob On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Doug Hespe wrote: > > I have just installed potato on a machine which happily > ran slink before. During the install it refused to > load the lp module--- > >Error installing lp module > >/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:init_module:Device or resource busy > >Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including > >invalid IO or IRQ parameters > >/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o failed > >/lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/lp.o:insmod lp failed > ---so I put in parport which someone mentioned some time ago. > > At bootup, if the printer is on, parport detects the > printer correctly-- see attatched dmesg log-- but when > I try to cat testfile > /dev/lp0 or lp1, bash complains > that no such devices exist. > > If someone can tell me where in the fine manual to look > for help, I should be most grateful. > > TIA, > Doug. > ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
