[NTLUG:Discuss] modprobe ppa says that parport is busy

[Neil Aggarwal]

Douglas:

Thanks for your insights.  I really appreciate it.

> This has been a chronic problem for me, under RH 6 and 6.1, and Mdk 7.
> In fact, I've never gotten my parport ZIP to work under any Linux distro,
> despite numerous tries.

I was able to get my ZIP drive to work before on this machine using RH 6.0.

> Probably, you have your printer and ZIP on the same single parport;

Yes, I do have my printer attached thru my ZIP drive. I  have to do this way
since I am on a laptop and I cant have more than 1 parallel port.  I guess
that I could buy a PCMCIA adapter for an additional port, but that is going to
be a real pain since it will not automatically install when I dock the laptop.

Also, I dont know if the standard install has set-up the printer support yet,
but I did not do anything to set-up the printer.

I saw in the mini-HOWTO that there is a project for the parallel port
sharing.  I will have to check it out.

Thanks,
    Neil.