Hi Tim, 

Thanks for your help.  However my source of problem was in the
build stages of the kernel. I had misspecified parallel port
support in the configuration process.


Cheers,

Dominic.


Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Mar 9 12:57:40 rlevesque modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> 
> >char-major-6 Mar 9 12:58:12 rlevesque last message repeated 5
> >times Mar 9 12:59:16 rlevesque last message repeated 2 times
> 
> [/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt ...
>   6 char Parallel printer devices
>                   0 = /dev/lp0 Parallel printer on parport0
>                   1 = /dev/lp1 Parallel printer on parport1
>                     ...
> 
>                 Current Linux kernels no longer have a fixed
> mapping
>                 between parallel ports and I/O addresses.
> Instead,
>                 they are redirected through the parport multiplex
> layer.  ...
> 
> Add to /etc/conf.modules:
> 
> alias char-major-5 off



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