Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262019AbUCDRG5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:06:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262020AbUCDRG5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:06:57 -0500 Received: from wblv-248-49.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.165.248.49]:6017 "EHLO gateway.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262019AbUCDRGy (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:06:54 -0500 Subject: Re: udev versus parallel-port Zip drive From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: Martin Schlemmer To: walt Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing Lists , Greg KH In-Reply-To: <40465460.1050600@myrealbox.com> References: <40465460.1050600@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-q3OfXnlfS55n+lTA5Cob" Message-Id: <1078420098.3614.4.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:08:18 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1643 Lines: 58 --=-q3OfXnlfS55n+lTA5Cob Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 23:55, walt wrote: > I've been fiddling with Zip-drive support -- both USB and > parallel-port. >=20 > When I compile everything as modules I find that the > parallel-port driver for Zip drives (ppa) does not load > automatically. To make the parallel Zip drive work I > need to do a 'modprobe ppa' manually, after which everything > works as expected. >=20 > I can only imagine the complexity involved in figuring out > what is attached to the parallel port at boot-time -- there > must be thousands of possibilities to sort through. >=20 > My question, I suppose, is: what are the chances that a > parallel-port device can be automatically detected by udev > and the appropriate module loaded? Is this a pipe-dream? > Or maybe it should already work and I'm just omitting some > important steps? >=20 You can have a look at sys-apps/discover or sys-apps/kudzu for this. Regards, --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-q3OfXnlfS55n+lTA5Cob Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAR2KCqburzKaJYLYRArYVAJsGhlrs8PVsT1OZKOdjBmZ76GyFawCbBoWm WeDacjFNYENUjMwG00ty4d0= =aVHX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-q3OfXnlfS55n+lTA5Cob-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/