Using printer and ppa Zip simultaneously

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5 total messages Started by Joe Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00

#490

Author: Joe
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00

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I was told there was a HOWTO I could use to help me out but it was
woefully out of date.  It still said you had to switch between the print
and ppa modules.  Is there some way I could just print w/o castrating my
Zip and vice versa?

Re: Using printer and ppa Zip simultaneously

#491

Author: Andre Kostur
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00

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In article <34D009C7.8E6F139@tux.org>, Joe <jtseng@tux.org> wrote:
>I was told there was a HOWTO I could use to help me out but it was
>woefully out of date.  It still said you had to switch between the print
>and ppa modules.  Is there some way I could just print w/o castrating my
>Zip and vice versa?

Take a look at

http://www.cyberelk.demon.co.uk/parport.html

This has patches to 2.0.33 and 2.1.something.  I'm going to be installing it 
tonight and see what happens...

Re: Using printer and ppa Zip simultaneously

#492

Author: Samuel Gonzalez, Jr.
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00

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There may be.  I am running RH 5.0 and it loads ppa with kerneld.
Before I don't think it could do that before, so it might change it for
you now.

--
Samuel Gonzalez, Jr.
samuel.gonzalez.jr@samsonindustries.com
"You're only as good as your last performance"

Re: Using printer and ppa Zip simultaneously

#493

Author: Przemek Klosowski
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00

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andre@incognito.com (Andre Kostur) writes:

> >I was told there was a HOWTO I could use to help me out but it was
> >woefully out of date.  It still said you had to switch between the print
> >and ppa modules.  Is there some way I could just print w/o castrating my
> >Zip and vice versa?
> 
> Take a look at
> 
> http://www.cyberelk.demon.co.uk/parport.html
> 
> This has patches to 2.0.33 and 2.1.something.  I'm going to be installing it 
> tonight and see what happens...

Still, simultaneous printing and ZIPping doesn't work reliably, even using
manufacturer provided drivers (simultaneous meaning not just interleaved,
but literally mixing the printer and zip data streams.) 

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Re: Using printer and ppa Zip simultaneously

#494

Author: Chris Rankin
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 00:00

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Samuel Gonzalez, Jr. wrote:

> There may be.  I am running RH 5.0 and it loads ppa with kerneld.
> Before I don't think it could do that before, so it might change it
> for you now.

I have Slakware 3.3 with a 2.0.33 kernel, and I managed to persuade
kerneld to load ppa with the line "scsi_adaptor  ppa" in my kerneld
configuration file. This works, but only if the lp module isn't
currently loaded. Getting kerneld to automatically unload lp before
loading ppa (and vice versa) would be a step forwards.

Hmm... there is a post-install section... I wonder if there is an
undocumented "pre-install" section?

Chris.

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