Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer

[virtanen <hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi>]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Gerhard Häring wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> My solution for switching from parallel zip drive to printer
> under SUSE (no reason why it shouldn't work with Debian) was to unload
> the zip driver and load the drivers necessary for printing:
> 
> rmmod ppa (need unmount zip drive first)
> insmod parport
> insmod parport_pc
> insmod lp
> 
> There should be more elegant ways, though ...
> 
> Gerhard
> 
> virtanen wrote:
> > I wanted to be able sometimes use the zip drive and sometimes
> > to use the printer. 

Thanks for good advice. 

It seems to be working in my case just by doing 
rmmod ppa 

lpd is being started during booting and for some reason the system didn't
like 'insmod' commands at all. 
(I've installed lprng.) 

This is quite easy solution. 

I'll maybe try later to install newer kernel.

-
hv