On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:32:17PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: > When selecting the device driver module for lp (line printer) in potato I > get this error: > > /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy > /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o failed > /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod lp failed > > Installation failed. > > ===== > > I do not get this error if I install slink instead, its new to potato, at > least for me. > > Since I have my harddrive on a plug in carrier, I plugged in the Win98 disc > to verify that nothing has gone wrong with my lp controller (its the typical > on board one) and it works just fine. It is configured, in the BIOS, as > 378H IRQ 7 ECP+EPP ECP DMA Select 3. > > Rather than use the default of leaving the command line arguments blank I > also tried io=0x378 irq=7 but the error was the same. > > Is this the correct group to report this? > > Any ideas? I'm not sure that this would affect installation of the module itself, but lp device numbering changed between kernels 2.0.x and 2.2.x. Have you compiled a new kernel yet? The modules off the install disks are a bit dodgy (this bug may have been fixed however). -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
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