Re: about PLIP

[sylvain ferriol <sylvain.ferriol@imag.fr>]

sylvain ferriol wrote:

> hello
> i 'm testing plip module and it works manually
> before selecting plip from network modules list, i have to insmod 
> partport_pc
> the problem is that in modules.dep, plip depends on parport and 
> patport_pc depends on parport too
> but without parport_pc i have never succeded to make plip work
>
> so we have to add in rootskel/src/etc/modules.conf:
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
if in bios , the parport is configured in ecp mode, we have to add 
another line in modules.conf: options parport_pc irq=auto
but it does not work with SPP (standard mode) so we must put instead in 
modules.conf: options parport io=0x378 irq=7 (many default bios config) 
, and it works in ecp mode too


the  first bad solution is to hardwire these options in modules.conf but 
it's arch specific
=> so we have to put modutils tool in rootskel

and the next solution is to display the ethdetect/params window for 
parport_pc module when the user select plip
=> so we have to create a sort of module dependences  tool for module 
params window :
=> example a ddetect.dep file with:  "plip: parport_pc"

so if the user wants to config  the plip  module ,  he has to config 
the  parport_pc module  too ;)

that's all folks
sylvain