Hi,
I've looked at several of the guides, lists, archives, tech-help
sites, etc. and tried some of the things suggested to no avail. I'm
assuming (based on what I've seen in the docs) that people are so
familiar with what I'm describing that I don't need to be precise at
this point. If needed, I will capture configuration, input and output
info.
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
I have an ABIT BP6 mobo running RedHat 6.1 (kernel 2.2.12-20smp). I can
use the zipdrive and printer (sharing the single parallel port) under
Win98. I don't detect any evidence of the cable being the kind that
requires Zip-plus treatment. To simplify debugging, I've uncoupled the
zipdrive and printer, leaving the zipdrive directly connected to LPT1.
It appears that an older version of ppa is provided by RH. When I
power-up under RH, the drive on-line light is green and when I insert a
used (Win98 formatted) disk, the zipdrive appears (a little yellow
flashing light) to access the diskette. I've fiddled with the BIOS,
trying out EPP, EPP+ECP etc after noting that there were some detection
problems at one time depending on the mode.
WHAT I'VE TRIED
I have put two alias commands in /etc/conf.modules as suggested.
Since I never see any evidence in dmesg that ppa has been activated, I
wonder if I need to do something in addition to have ppa activated at
bootup.
After bootup, if I issue a command line "modprobe ppa", lsmod shows
parport, parport_pc, etc. I ASSUME that this is evidence that ppa has at
least loaded successfully. If I then try to mount the drive at /zip
(using fat or vfat), I get a message that asks "insmod driver?". Yet, if
I try an insmod ppa, I get an "init_module: device or resource busy"
type of msg. Duh? (Doh?) Any suggestions are most welcome.
WHAT I'M THINKING OF NEXT
As a way of insuring that I know whether the port is probed
successfully, I thought of using id_probe, etc., as provided by Mr.
Campbell (excuse the formality, I 'misplaced' the first name). The make
in the "common" sub-directory (supplied via download from torque) barfs
because asm/io.h, etc. can't be found. My problem is that I don't have
enough understanding of makefiles to understand how to fix the problem.
I wonder if I need to move the make and source files into a particular
place in the local source tree, or create a particular path in TOP, etc.
Since I see a fair number of similarly named files, I'm facing a
monkey-at-the-typewriter situation :-). Can ayone suggest a quick course
on makefiles that might allow me to learn how to compile id_probe (short
of walking through Stallman's doc)?
I see that IOMEGA offers beta drivers for 2.2.14 but I desperately
want to avoid building a new kernel (for the obvious reason that I can
even build id_probe yet!).
Thanks in advance for your help.
Roy Wilson
designrw@bellatlantic.net
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