[plug] 2.4 parport support

[Leon Brooks]

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:16, Harry McNally wrote:
> Dear PLUGers
>
> I need some fast answers please.
>
> I and others (thanks Garry, Mike) have spent long hours working to getting
> 2.4 onto the Computer Angels distro. Those efforts may be thwarted because
> we don't have parallel port support compiled in the kernel and I need to
> know what aliases to put in /etc/modutils to support the likely range of
> parallel port hardware in our old machines.

Um, if it's using the kernel module loader, that should more or less work 
itself out without any help from modules.conf; I hit /dev/lp0 on this 
(Mandrake 8.2, kernel 2.4.18) box to see what would happen and it loaded (in 
this order) parport, lp, parport_pc

Cheers; Leon