TheOldFellow wrote:
Andrew Benton wrote:
Ilja wrote:
Hi,
Does anybody know how I can get the lp (parport printer) module to load at
boottime?
I thought that the kernel should detect it automatically, but thats not the
case.
I thought if you stuck a feather in the ground it would grow a chicken.
To load a module on boot add it to /etc/sysconfig/modules
The real question is why you built it as a module? Were you not expecting to have a printer?
Perhaps the op:
1) needed to reduce the size of the kernel to get in on a rescue floppy?
2) wanted to learn how modules worked?
3) is building for a laptop with a small memory that only occasionally needs to drive a printer.
there are other reasons, but icbbtlta :-)
Personally I use modules all the time, but I do it for fun, it's the challenge of getting 'hotpig' and 'uduck' to work, you know.
I haven't done a printer yet - no requirement has come up - but I'd be interested in the hotplug/udev solution, if there is one.
R.
Till now I had to add i2c to the udev rules
# i2c devices KERNEL="i2c-[0-9]*", NAME="i2c/%n", SYMLINK="%k"
Other then that, I follow your reason. Modules are there, so why not use them. For me it's just one more step in advancing my linux OS skills. Learning to use the tools.
Regards,
ilja
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