PLIP problem pls help

[Steve Kieu <haiquy@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

Sorry if it is not related to debian specific but I
hope some one would help me out.

I got two boxes and wish to use plip to connect.
Kernel 2.4.12-ac2 compiled with plip and lp as
modules. Printting is normal; 

So, I removed lp and even I removed parport_pc so on,
and 

modprobe parport_pc
modprobe plip

No error message but plip does not use the correct irw
for the device, the syslog says:

parport0 has no IRQ. Using IRQ-less mode,wh
ich is fairly inefficient!
Nov  9 16:48:09 kieu kernel: NET3 PLIP version
2.4-parport gniibe@mri.co.jp
Nov  9 16:48:09 kieu kernel: plip0: Parallel port at
0x378, not using IRQ

But when parport_pc loaded it detects irq 7 correctly

 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Nov  9 16:40:04 kieu kernel: parport0: cpp_daisy:
aa5500ff(38)                
Nov  9 16:40:04 kieu kernel: parport0: assign_addrs:
aa5500ff(38)             
Nov  9 16:40:04 kieu kernel: parport0: cpp_daisy:
aa5500ff(38)  
Nov  9 16:40:04 kieu kernel: parport0: assign_addrs:
aa5500ff(38)
Nov  9 16:47:59 kieu kernel: parport0: PC-style at
0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Nov  9 16:47:59 kieu kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected

If I tried to insmod plip io=0x378 irq=7 and it says:

Using
/lib/modules/2.4.12-ac2/kernel/drivers/net/plip.o
/lib/modules/2.4.12-ac2/kernel/drivers/net/plip.o:
invalid parameter parm_io

I suspect as plip did not use the correct irq so that
the interface is not good. When I ping each other 100%
packets lost, and the other end says, 

plip0: transmit timeout(1,80)

Is it a bug with kernel 2.4.12-ac2? Or did I miss
something?

Thank you in advance..



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