On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:36:46PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > On February 28, 2003 03:04 am, ScruLoose wrote: -SNIP- > > I'll need to unload lp before loading plip, so that plip can > > 'own' the parallel port. > > Right? > > Yes. The only way it can't work is if lp is compiled into the kernel, which > is not a standard option.
Whee! okay, plip seems to load and unload happily enough on the ol' desktop box. > One fun way you could accomplish your task would be to start with a minimal > floppy distro just to get plip going, then just copy an entire filesystem > either over the minimal distro or on a new partition. I've done this on a > couple old 386's and posted my experience at: > > http://www.superant.com/cgi-bin/smalllinux.pl?Small_Linux_Notes_By_Levi_Waldron Hmm... I may try that out... dunno if it'll be much of an advantage for my situation. If I can't convince the "boot-floppies" system to get plip going, that'll be my next line of attack. Right now I'm working from the rescue, root, and 4 driver floppies from my woody CD... from the 1440 set of images. When I try to load the plip module, I get this: /lib/modules/2.2.20/net/plip.o init_module: Device or resource busy A couple of other comments follow, then "Installation failed". My detective work on Google turned up this page: http://turing.uiah.fi/tarmo/text/plip.html Which says that plip is probably failing because I need to give it an IRQ. It also says something about having to write it straight into the /proc filesystem because plip won't accept it as a module parameter. Umm, okay. If I had an IRQ to provide it, I'd try that. How do I find out what IRQ the parallel port is actually on? Do I need to specify an I/O address to go with it, and if so, how do I find *that* out? Does it make any difference whether I put the port in bi-directional, ECP, or EPP mode? (I have no idea what these modes mean.) I can't interrogate the old win95 system for any of these values, 'cause I've already repartitioned/reformatted the HD. (oops?) The machine in question is a Hitachi Pentium 133 laptop: Notebook E133D/1000 Model # HESP100DS Thanks for any help, -Chris
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