[Sussex] Printers and Gentoo (again)

[John D.]

Hi list,

When I try to setup my printers, I've looked at the obvious (as I
understand it anyway).

Geoff pointed me in the right direction last time, but this time I'm
quite confused, because when I check that theres parallel port and lp
support, I cant see any i.e. 

bash-2.05b# modprobe paraport
FATAL: Module paraport not found.
bash-2.05b# modprobe lp
FATAL: Module lp not found.
bash-2.05b# modprobe paraport_pc
FATAL: Module paraport_pc not found.
bash-2.05b#
 

But, if I cd /usr/src/linux and then do make menuconfig I start looking
through the sections and I see

Parallel port support--> <*> Parallel port support 
Parallel port support--> <*>   PC-style hardware 

Character Devices--> <*> Parallel printer support 

and according to the legend, the <*> indicates that "it's" built in, so
does this mean that I have to have the paraport, paraport_pc and lp
facilities as modules ? (or because it's "built in", modprobe shows the
absence of modules as above?).

regards

John D.

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