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Re: can't print



Hello there,

Just to add some (perhaps) useful information:

On Wed, 24 May 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote:

> >I did it by (manually) insmod'ing:
> >        parport.o
> >        parport_pc.o
> >        lp.o

Only an issue with kernel 2.2.x and higher. With kernel 2.0.x it's a bit
different.  

> I found that loading parport_pc automagicly loaded
> parport.  Atleast when using modconfig and selecting
> parport_pc it also grabbed parport.  I think we have a
> layered driver here, lp sits on top of parport_pc on
> top of parport.  Or something like that.

Right.
There's more info about all this in the file parport.txt in the
Documentation in the kernel-source tree. IMHO, very good information.
Regards,
Daniel 



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