Tim Waugh writes:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 05:04:20PM +0100, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
>
> > parport_probe. parport_probe always told "no 1284 device found" (suse
>
> Ignore this message. The older ZIP drives aren't IEEE 1284 devices,
> that's all. It doesn't mean that no device is _there_, just that
> whatever device _is_ there (if there is one at all) isn't an IEEE 1284
> device.
>
> > Is there some fundamental problems keeping parport_probe from falling
> > back to EPP mode after unsuccessfully probinge IEE1284 mode?
>
> Parport_probe has nothing to do with the ppa driver; parport_probe
> just offers information to the user, actually, and only very few
> drivers (the HP OfficeJet ones for instance) even use that
> information.
>
Well, but "modprobe ppa" failed as long as ECP/EPP was set in the
BIOS...
And "no 1284 device found" was the most obvious information in the
logs .
Bye
Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de
Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
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