[hpoj-devel] [hpoj-devl] A hack For those of you with external zip drives

[Sammy R. <re...@ca...>]

For those of you linuxers with zip drive if you are running linux
mandrake or red hat and only have one parallel port to share your zip
drive and printer with use this quick hack to run both devices on the
same port goto /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and write the following lines in
after it loads the sound modules or it won't work

#load parallel port
/sbin/modprobe parport
/sbin/modprobe parport_pc
/sbin/modprobe parport_probe

#load zip drive
/sbin/modprobe imm (this for zip250 use the one applicable to zip 100)

#load printer
insmod  /usr/local/bin/ieee12844.o
insmod /usr/local/bin/ieee12844pp.o

i must be done in this order or it won't work and don't have your zip
drive compiled into the kernal either or it won't work
/sbin/modprobe bit are assuming you have the module installed in the
kernal i think not entirely sure other wise insmod them from where ever
they are.
i hope this helps

my regards sammy