[Sussex] Gentoo and printers?
Geoff Teale
gteale at cmedltd.com
Tue Nov 9 09:42:43 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 09:31 +0000, John D. wrote:
> bash-2.05b# modprobe parport
> bash-2.05b# modprobe parport_pc
> bash-2.05b# modprobe lp
> FATAL: Module lp not found.
> bash-2.05b#
>
> Damn Damn Damn.
Ok, never fear - this means you're only missing one module - "lp".
> Is this basically what I'd have to do (I found this, can't recall where,
> but it sort of sounded about right, but I'm not quite sure)
>
> <quote>
> # cd /usr/src/linux
> #make menuconfig
That's generally the way to start, yes..
> Device Drivers > [*]Parallel port support
.. I think you already have this, it's the parport and partport_pc
module. You just need line printer support..... the rest of your
process seems right.
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Geoff Teale <gteale at cmedltd.com>
Cmed Technology
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