Thanks, Bob. When I looked at modconf it indicated that the lp module was now in the kernel--probably because I followed Sebastiaan and Mike's suggestions. My next task will be to reboot and see if it stays there. Regards, Doug. On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:39:38AM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: > On my system, to get around this situation, I installed the paraport modules > during the initial install and used modconf later to add lp. > > bob