Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
Any other suggestions? OK, I compiled my own 2.2.7 kernel and went through the docu: It seems, that the module parport_pc was missing and therefore causing all the trouble... Thanks for you help! Stef
Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
The only think I can think of is there's another program, more specifically a TSR that's running resident in the background causing modprobe to report with this error. Are you sure that you don't have lpd running in the background and that you have unloaded any other possibly conflicting modules that may take up your IRQ or use the parrallel port? I killed lpd and rmmod lp. Now lsmod gives me: Module Size Used by ppp_deflate39940 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp3568 0 (autoclean) appletalk 17472 0 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean) sg 4080 0 (unused) ppp18956 2 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp] slhc4392 1 [ppp] dummy716 0 (unused) serial 19852 2 parport_probe 2884 0 (autoclean) (unused) unix 10012 9 (autoclean) parport 7028 0 [parport_probe] vfat 11408 1 smbfs 25944 0 (unused) nfs30136 0 (unused) lockd 31240 0 [nfs] sunrpc 52420 0 [nfs lockd] Trying modprobe ppa still gives the 'Device or resource busy' error. The drive works under windows 95. There the parallel port uses IRQ 7. here in linux cat /proc/interrupts gives: CPU0 0: 168531 XT-PIC timer 1: 2588 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 43548 XT-PIC serial 4: 1906 XT-PIC serial 8: 2 XT-PIC rtc 13: 0 XT-PIC fpu 14: 90398 XT-PIC ide0 15: 4 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 Any other suggestions? Stef
Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
The only think I can think of is there's another program, more specifically a TSR that's running resident in the background causing modprobe to report with this error. Are you sure that you don't have lpd running in the background and that you have unloaded any other possibly conflicting modules that may take up your IRQ or use the parrallel port? Reboot your computer and check the bios settings for your parallel port's IRQ and memory address. Then modprobe lp and make sure it's displayed as shown in your /proc/interrupts and the other file that's in the /proc directory that shows memory address for devices connected to the system (sorry, I can't tell you exactly which one, I'm in school on a NT box). If everything isn't 'congruent', then you need to check to be sure that no other device is using those resources. Debian Mail wrote: Just modprobe ppa and e-mail the output to this list. There should be an interrupt here for your parallel port, and yes, the parallel port can have conflicting irqs with other devices. Do that and let me see the output. # modprobe ppa /lib/modules/2.2.5/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy parport: Device or resource busy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
Try modprobe ppa.. Chances are you have conflicting IRQs. Look at your /proc/interrupts and make sure everything is correct. Make sure you don't have ldp running and that you also have removed your lp module. Good luck. Hm, there shouldn't be any conflicting IRQs, since the ZIP is a parallel port device? I rmmod lp and killed lpd. cat /proc/interrupts gives CPU0 0: 36137 XT-PIC timer 1: 1182 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 4976 XT-PIC serial 4: 1046 XT-PIC serial 8: 2 XT-PIC rtc 13: 0 XT-PIC fpu 14: 36638 XT-PIC ide0 15: 4 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 But modprobe ppa still gives: /lib/modules/2.2.5/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy parport: Device or resource busy Stef
Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
Just modprobe ppa and e-mail the output to this list. There should be an interrupt here for your parallel port, and yes, the parallel port can have conflicting irqs with other devices. Do that and let me see the output. On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 09:55:51AM +0200, Debian Mail wrote: Try modprobe ppa.. Chances are you have conflicting IRQs. Look at your /proc/interrupts and make sure everything is correct. Make sure you don't have ldp running and that you also have removed your lp module. Good luck. Hm, there shouldn't be any conflicting IRQs, since the ZIP is a parallel port device? I rmmod lp and killed lpd. cat /proc/interrupts gives CPU0 0: 36137 XT-PIC timer 1: 1182 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 4976 XT-PIC serial 4: 1046 XT-PIC serial 8: 2 XT-PIC rtc 13: 0 XT-PIC fpu 14: 36638 XT-PIC ide0 15: 4 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 But modprobe ppa still gives: /lib/modules/2.2.5/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy parport: Device or resource busy Stef -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null pgpYVA3JqU8xa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
Just modprobe ppa and e-mail the output to this list. There should be an interrupt here for your parallel port, and yes, the parallel port can have conflicting irqs with other devices. Do that and let me see the output. # modprobe ppa /lib/modules/2.2.5/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy parport: Device or resource busy
Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
I'm using kernel 2.2.7 on slink. My Zip (parallel) drive works perfectly and so does the printer. I don't use modules at all. The 2.2.* kernel series allows you to have multiple parallel support. But how do you use it? When I try do mount /dev/sda4 I just get mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device Stef
Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
Did you compile support for the parallel port and for the correct type of Zip drive -- ppa or imm? On Sat, 8 May 1999, Debian Mail wrote: I'm using kernel 2.2.7 on slink. My Zip (parallel) drive works perfectly and so does the printer. I don't use modules at all. The 2.2.* kernel series allows you to have multiple parallel support. But how do you use it? When I try do mount /dev/sda4 I just get mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device Stef -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
I'm using kernel 2.2.7 on slink. My Zip (parallel) drive works perfectly and so does the printer. I don't use modules at all. The 2.2.* kernel series allows you to have multiple parallel support. But how do you use it? When I try do mount /dev/sda4 I just get mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device I had that problem with one zip disk it turned out that it had been re-formated and was on sda1 not 4 (partition 1 not 4) Simo
Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
Did you compile support for the parallel port and for the correct type of Zip drive -- ppa or imm? No, since I use kernel 2.2.5 comming from potato. There is however a ppa module comming with that kernel, but I can_t just say insmod ppa, because then I get a device or ressource bussy error. Stef
ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
Once (Debien 1.3.1) I could use my ZIP drive by saying rmmod lp insmod scsi_mod insmod sd_mod insmod ppa After I installed Debian 2.0, ppa.o was not there any more. Now I installed kernel 2.2.5. So ppa.o is there again, but not the other two modules above. If I just say insmod ppa I get: /lib/modules/2.2.5/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy (but I did a rmmod lp first...) How does it work for kernel 2.2? Stef
Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
On 07 May 1999, Debian Mail wrote: Once (Debien 1.3.1) I could use my ZIP drive by saying rmmod lp insmod scsi_mod insmod sd_mod insmod ppa After I installed Debian 2.0, ppa.o was not there any more. Now I installed kernel 2.2.5. So ppa.o is there again, but not the other two modules above. If I just say insmod ppa I get: /lib/modules/2.2.5/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy (but I did a rmmod lp first...) How does it work for kernel 2.2? Stef I'm using kernel 2.2.7 on slink. My Zip (parallel) drive works perfectly and so does the printer. I don't use modules at all. The 2.2.* kernel series allows you to have multiple parallel support. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/ The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
