Re: [PARPORT] autoloading drivers based on ieee1284 device ID changes?

From: Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 11:40:48 EST

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On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:02:23AM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:

> I have a vague recollection that someone at Red Hat was working on
> this a long time ago. I don't know if anything came of it.

It didn't. There is some code in kudzu that's nearly useful, which
reconciles the probed device ID with Grant Taylor's printer database.

I would guess that the model numbers in that database are likely to
differ slightly from the strings that you get back too.

Tim.
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