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[Michael Ward Cole]

I have two parallel ports and have parport and parport-pc modules installed 
into linux 2.2.19pre17.  I get messages on boot up that the two ports are 
identified but it gives me an instruction to use procfs to enable 
interrupt-driven operation.  The only file procfs on my system is a header 
file.  What does this message mean and what am I suppose to do about it?  
Thanks,
Michael