if its in the paralell port i think you need to turn off your parallel
port printer which may or maynot be a modules in your kernel < >
paralell printer support i believe has to be modular so u can take it
out and in cause that also makes the device busy.... but ihavent used
my zip in ages i may be confuseed
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On 11 Jan, Douglas Wagner wrote:
> Ok...correct me if i'm wrong, but it should either be working off the
> parrallel port or some type of scsi card. The serial port is not what you
> are looking at.
>
> If it's working off of a scsi card, I'd imagine (tho I have no proof) that
> you need to make sure SCSI devices are turned on through the kernel. If
> it's running off the parrallel port, and it isn't automaticaly detected
> (and i'm not sure why) i'd try one of two things. First, try making sure
> that there is no other device using IRQ 7 (I'm forgetting how to do this,
> there's a file you can cat out in the /proc or some such directory with a
> list of all your IRQ's and what's using them currently). If there's
> another device using IRQ7 i'd guess that's your problem (and if I remember
> correctly, some of the inspiron Hardware likes to auto configure itself to
> IRQ7 so that wouldn't surprise me). If IRQ7 is magicaly open on your
> system, try enabling SCSI devices anyway. If I remember correctly, the
> parrallel port ZIP drive thinks that the Parrallel port IS a scsi device,
> so that might work...I doubt it. I"m putting most of my cookies in the
> "IRQ7 already in use" problem, but I just wanted to post anything that
> sounded like an idea. Alot of the time in those "howto"'s the authors
> forget to put the most basic stuff in. Like for instance, when configuring
> an SCSI device, i've seen a few of them mention to recompile the kernel
> with SCSI support installed.
>
> Anyway, let me know if any of this makes sense or works.
>
> Doug Wagner
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul M.N Feehan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 1999 10:52 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: loading ppa.o?
>
> Dear Doug,
>
> This may not be too much help, but I've exactly the same problem with
> accessing my parallel port Zip drive using an inspiron 3000, with
> slackware 3.6, kernel 2.0.35.
>
> I got the same error message you quote when I initially ran insmod ppa. I
> then recompiled the kernel following the instructions in the mini-Howto by
> Kyle Dansie, "Zip drive mini-Howto" , August 26 1998, available from
>
> http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO
>
> and no doubt elsewhere too. (Basically, enable scsi support and load ppa
> as a module.) Despite following this and his other instructions closely,
> I got the same error message.
>
> Dansie says that if one still gets the error message after recompiling,
> then you must have not have recompiled the kernel correctly. While I'll
> try redoing it, I'm pretty certain I did it right the first time so I
> think it must be something else. Anyhow, he has a lot of useful tips there
> which may help you to get it working, though I haven't yet. If you do get
> it to work, please post your solution to the inspiron list (as will I).
>
> Paul Feehan
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> On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Doug Lewan wrote:
>
>> I'd like to get my ZIP drive attached to my
>> inspiron 3200.
>>
>> However, when I try insmod ppa.o I get
>> ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>>
>> I'm running kernel 2.0.34 and lsmod reveals only
>> Module Pages Used by
>> serial_cs 1 0
>> xirc2ps_cs 3 1
>> ds 2 [serial_cs xirc2ps_cs] 4
>> i82365 5 2
>> pcmcia_core 8 [serial_cs xirc2ps_cs ds i82365] 5
>> vfat 4 1
>>
>> I feel a little confused since none of those
>> modules seem to have anything to do with the
>> serial port or anything SCSI-like.
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>> --
>> ,Doug
>> Doug Lewan
>> CSF Corp.
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