[Sussex] Printers and Gentoo (again)

[Stephen Williams]

On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 14:14 +0000, John D. wrote:
> 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?).
> 

The asterisk indicates that support will be compiled into the kernel. A
module would be indicated by an <M>. Try printing something - you might
be pleasantly surprised to find that it works.

Steve Williams.


> regards
> 
> John D.
> 
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