Re: [PARPORT] EZ.C


Jay Jacobson (nin@goodnet.com)
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:05:59 -0700 (MST)


No need to remove it from your kernel completely. I would just use the
append statement of 'lp=0' in lilo.conf. However, either way will stop the
lp driver from being loaded.

~Jay

- J a y J a c o b s o n
- -----------------------
- Network Engineer, ISP -- 602.303.9500 -- 888.Good.Net
- jay@good.net -- www.kinetic.org

On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Alex Bartonek wrote:

 |On 11-Jan-98, Jay Jacobson wrote:
 |
 |>Two things come to mind -- first the proper command should be 'insmod ez'
 |>-- not 'insmod ez.o'. Secondly (I had a similar problem), if your kernel
 |
 |It works either way.
 |
 |
 |>is configured to load the lp (printer) module (or if lp is compiled
 |>directly into the kernel) you need to turn it off. If it is a module, just
 |>type 'rmmod lp'. If it is compiled in, add 'lp=0' to your append
 |>statements in /etc/lilo.conf. If you do not have any existing append
 |>statements, add the line 'append="lp=0"' to /etc/lilo.conf.
 |
 |Tried all of this, and no go. If i do a rmmod lp, it says it cant find the
 |file or directory. (so I guess lp doesnt exist)
 |
 |But when I do a cat /proc/ioports, lp is there...
 |
 |Any more ideas how to do this? (should I recompile the kernel, and say 'N'o to
 |the parallel printer support?
 |
 |Thanks
 |
 |Alex
 |
 |>~Jay
 |
 |>- J a y J a c o b s o n
 |>- -----------------------
 |>- Network Engineer, ISP -- 602.303.9500 -- 888.Good.Net
 |>- jay@good.net -- www.kinetic.org
 |
 |>On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Alex Bartonek wrote:
 |
 |> |I have compiled the EZ.C source, but when I do a insmod ez.o it tells me
 |> |Initialization of ez failed
 |> |...
 |> |
 |> |Any reason why?
 |> |
 |> |Thanks
 |> |Alex
 |> |
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