On Feb 26, 2000 at 09:15, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> Satya wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 25, 2000 at 15:40, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> >
> > > Make sure that your kernel has parallel printer support compiled in.
> >
> > How do I do that?
>
> Under make menuconfig, enable parallel port and PC style parallel port
Actually, I meant how do I find out if printer support is enabled :)
I'd rather not recompile the whole kernel. Will this just compile the
printer modules?
> in the General Options section. Nextenable parallel port printer support
> in the Character Devices section. The modules will be built but /dev/lp0
> won't work unless you enable the second one too.
So even if I have the modules I must recompile the kernel? I seem to have
the modules,
[root]~# ls -l /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/par*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5332 Apr 20 1999
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/paride.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14242 Apr 20 1999
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/parport.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8752 Apr 20 1999
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/parport_pc.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5548 Apr 20 1999
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/parport_probe.o
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