I've installed Slink and when I tried to set up the ppa parameters I'd got an error an the zip was not installed. Now I must to install it from the command line. Any help will be regreted. My system's got just one parallel port at 0x378 irq7
Mike Merten escribió: > > On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:59:38PM +0000, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > > On 07. febrúar 1999, Mauro Mazzieri wrote: > > > Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > > > When loading the kernel I get > > > > > > > > ppa: Version2.03 (for Linux 2.2.0) > > > > Warning - no ppa compatible devices found. My zipdrive is connected to > > > > my parallel port with the > > > > printer connected to the zipdrive. I have had the zip for around 3 > > > > years so I do not believe it is > > > > one of the newer types (plus my cable does not say autodetect). Any > > > > ideas on what I might can try > > > > to get the kernel to read my parallel port zip drive? > > > > > > The ZIP-howto recommend to compile ppa as a module. Also, you have to > > > select "Iomega ZIP for parallel port" as low-level scsi device. > > > > I think that the 2.2 kernel is supposed to be able to load both ppa and lp > > simultaneously so you shouldnt have to have it as an loadable module. > > > > I have a zipdrive working with kernel 2.2.1. I found it much easier > to get it working when I compiled the parport, scsi and zip support > directly into the kernel. I believe I also had to enable the parport > autodetect feature, IIRC. I have the lp support as a module. At boot, > the kernel correctly identifies the zip drive but gives an error (no > disk), and also correctly identifies the HP printer attached to the > drive. I'm using kernel boot params of 'parport=0x378,7 > parport=0x278,5 lp=aut0' specified in lilo.conf with the append= > command. > > Mike > > -- > Mike Merten > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ# 28460680 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
