Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Wilhelm Bertalan wrote:
>
> > I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not
> > detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still
> > existing, the entry looks like:
> >
> > crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 5 1998 lp0
> > crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 1 May 5 1998 lp1
> > crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 2 May 5 1998 lp2
>
> The device entries have nothing to do with the actual devices.
> Make sure you've loaded all the kernel modules you need for printing, try
>
> modprobe parport
> modprobe parport_pc
> modprobe lp
>
> LLaP
> bero
OK, after doing this and using lsmod I see:
[root@bertalan wb]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_probe 3492 2 (uninitialized)
parport_pc 5940 1 (autoclean)
lp 4988 1 (uninitialized)
parport 7316 1 (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc
lp]
nfsd 146236 1 (autoclean)
lockd 32712 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 55812 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
nls_iso8859-1 2052 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3580 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11196 1 (autoclean)
fat 32608 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
opl3 14600 0
sb 36596 0
uart401 6224 0 [sb]
sound 64504 0 [opl3 sb uart401]
soundlow 300 0 [sound]
soundcore 2628 6 [sb sound]
3c59x 19592
1
and printing still does not work...
so what means "uninitialised" ??
when I try to remove the modules (rmmod) I get a message "device is
busy" or "parport is in use" -- what next ??
Thanks and bye
willy
