Re: [hpoj-devel] hpoj on HP PSC500 Scanner/Copier/Printer

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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