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It seem you need to recompile paride.c until you get no unresolved symbols.

Check the recompile instructions, and header (*.h) until it works.

Laurence John Oliver wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Hoping someone out there on the list will have a solution for me - I
> think I'm part of the way there already...
>
> Running: Toshiba Laptop with Red Hat 6.2 - and have a HP Colorado 5Ge
> external parallel port tape backup unit I *desperately* need to get
> working (yes, I *am* a backup freak - a habit I got into in the days
> when windoze was even *less* stable than it is today:-)
>
> After checking out the parport website I got some of the information I
> needed - about loading the paride driver, epat driver and pt driver -
> and found that by manually doing a modprobe command for all three I was
> able to get a response from the tape drive (i.e. it started accessing
> the tape in the drive) - this is the most success I've had thus far:-)
>
> When I try using 'insmod' for Paride I get the following messages:
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/paride.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_enumerate_Rdcb625ab
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/paride.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_claim_R46138e04
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/paride.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_register_device_Ra78805aa
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/paride.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_unregister_device_R857406d1
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/paride.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_release_Re207d4f8

> However, there is no problem loading it using MODPROBE...
>
> After this, I am able to 'insmod' (or modprobe) EPAT okay, then PT - at
> which point the tape drive starts to make some nice noises that sound
> like I've actually got somewhere...
>
> At this point, tail -f /var/log/messages reveals:
>
> laptop Kernal: paride: version 1.04 installed
> laptop Kernal: paride: epat registered as protocol 0
> laptop Kernal: pt: pt version 1.04, major 96
> laptop Kernal: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
> laptop Kernal: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present
> laptop Kernal: pt0: Sharing parport0 at 0x378
> laptop Kernal: pt0: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378, mode 2 (8
> bit), delay 1
> laptop Kernal: pt0: HP COLORADO 5GBe, master, RO, blocksize 512, 2458 MB
>
> At this point I start thinking that I've made it - BUT, then I try to
> use one of my backup programs (KDAT, Taper, etc.) to try and USE
> /dev/pt0 as my backup device and nothing happens - although another tail
> -f /var/log/messages reveals this:
>
> laptop Kernal: pt0: Unimplemented ioctl 0x801c6d02
>
> I *know* there is something more I need to do - to get my tape drive
> working - but DON'T know WHAT - HELP???:-)
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> John Oliver.