First of all thanks for your responses.

Ok there isn't any progress.

The system:

Celeron 333 + CL Vibra16X + RedHat 6.0 kernel 2.2.5

/usr/src/linux/.config

...

#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y

...
#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y
# CONFIG_MCA is not set
# CONFIG_VISWS is not set
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
# CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC is not set
# CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA is not set
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
# CONFIG_PARPORT_PC is not set
CONFIG_APM=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
# CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set
# CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set
# CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_MULTIPLE_SUSPEND is not set
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE is not set
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
# CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set



...

#
# Plug and Play support
#
# CONFIG_PNP is not set

...

#
# Amateur Radio support
#
CONFIG_HAMRADIO=y
# CONFIG_AX25 is not set
CONFIG_HFMODEM=m
CONFIG_HFMODEM_SBC=y
# CONFIG_HFMODEM_WSS is not set

...

#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_EXTENDED=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_MANY_PORTS is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_SHARE_IRQ is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_DETECT_IRQ is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_MULTIPORT is not set
# CONFIG_HUB6 is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
# CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK is not set
CONFIG_MOUSE=y

...

#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS=m
# CONFIG_MSNDCLAS_HAVE_BOOT is not set
CONFIG_MSNDCLAS_INIT_FILE="/etc/sound/msndinit.bin"
CONFIG_MSNDCLAS_PERM_FILE="/etc/sound/msndperm.bin"
CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN=m
# CONFIG_MSNDPIN_HAVE_BOOT is not set
CONFIG_MSNDPIN_INIT_FILE="/etc/sound/pndspini.bin"
CONFIG_MSNDPIN_PERM_FILE="/etc/sound/pndsperm.bin"
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_PAS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_GUS=m
CONFIG_GUS16=y
CONFIG_GUSMAX=y
CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401=m
CONFIG_SOUND_PSS=m
# CONFIG_PSS_MIXER is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_MSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE=m
CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16=m
CONFIG_MAD16_OLDCARD=y
CONFIG_SOUND_WAVEFRONT=m
CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MAUI=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY=m
CONFIG_SOUND_AD1816=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI=m
CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850=m

#
# Additional low level sound drivers
#
CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y
CONFIG_ACI_MIXER=m
CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=m
CONFIG_AEDSP16=m
CONFIG_AEDSP16_BASE=220
CONFIG_MPU_BASE=330
CONFIG_SC6600=y
CONFIG_SC6600_JOY=y
CONFIG_SC6600_CDROM=4
CONFIG_SC6600_CDROMBASE=0
CONFIG_AEDSP16_SBPRO=y
CONFIG_AEDSP16_BASE=220
CONFIG_AEDSP16_SB_IRQ=5
CONFIG_AEDSP16_SB_DMA=0
CONFIG_AEDSP16_MPU401=y
CONFIG_AEDSP16_MPU_IRQ=5

...

So I' still trying to load hfmodem.o by doing:

[root@sealand /root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nfsd                  150936   8  (autoclean)
lockd                  30856   1  (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc                 52356   1  (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
vfat                   11516   0  (autoclean) (unused)
fat                    25664   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
soundlow                 300   0 
soundcore               2372   0 
[root@sealand /root]# modprobe hfmodem iobase=0x220 irq=5 dma=2
serio=0x3f8
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/hfmodem.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy
[root@sealand /root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nfsd                  150936   8  (autoclean)
lockd                  30856   1  (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc                 52356   1  (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
vfat                   11516   0  (autoclean) (unused)
fat                    25664   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
soundlow                 300   0 
soundcore               2372   0 
[root@sealand /root]# 

While looking at /var/log/messages such lines:

Nov 11 11:59:14 sealand kernel: hfmodem: (C) 1997 Thomas Sailer,
HB9JNX/AE4WA 
Nov 11 11:59:14 sealand kernel: hfmodem: version 0.2 compiled 11:03:42
Nov 11 1999 
Nov 11 11:59:14 sealand kernel: hfmodem: using rdtsc as timing source 
Nov 11 11:59:14 sealand kernel: hfmodem: PTT output: uart found at
address 0x3f8 type 16550A 
Nov 11 11:59:14 sealand modprobe: can't locate module parport_lowlevel

Is there any kind of explanation what parport is doing here?

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