Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?

[Debian Mail <debian@sos.ethz.ch>]

> 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_deflate            39940   0  (autoclean)
bsd_comp                3568   0  (autoclean)
appletalk              17472   0  (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1           2020   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               3548   1  (autoclean)
sg                      4080   0  (unused)
ppp                    18956   2  [ppp_deflate bsd_comp]
slhc                    4392   1  [ppp]
dummy                    716   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)
nfs                    30136   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