David
This is quite a service!
I'm away from the office at the moment and I haven't managed to get the
remote access bits of the new SuSE installation to accept IP addresses,
so I can't dial back in yet.
To much irrelevant information? Probably.
I'll report back as soon as I get a chance to try it.
Thanks
John
David Paschal wrote:
>
> John Simpson wrote:
> > Only problem is, the printer has to be on when the Linux box is
> > switched on otherwise the ieee12844pp module doesn't load. This is a
> > major problem when inexperienced users have control of the system,
> > which in my case is most of the time. Have I missed something? Are
> > there some switches I can pass to the module to force it to load?
> Hi, John. Please try the attached patch for ieee12844pp.c. It's a quick
> and dirty hack to remove the annoying requirement that the peripheral be
> connected and powered on when the module is loaded. I only made sure it
> compiled and didn't actually test it, so I don't know if there will be any
> problems. It should work, however, and I think the only problem would
> arise if you happened to have multiple parallel ports, in which case
> mlc:mlcpp0 might turn into mlc:mlcpp1. Let me know how it works out for
> you.
>
> David
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