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You can also buy a small adapter that will allow you to plug your laptop HD into a standard IDE cable from any motherboard. I use them a lot when recycling old hard drives from old laptops. I think I last paid about $5 for one on ebay.

HI am lame

i still cannot estabilish plip connection
on basiclinux i type insmod parport (that's ok), and when i type insmod plip it writes that device is bussy, but i don't
see lp in /proc/devices so can anybody help me??
please

oh and one more:
what should be complied in kernel, and what should be module to set plip corectly?

thx

Quote (michal @ Dec. 18 2003,08:47)

HI am lame

oh and one more:
what should be complied in kernel, and what should be module to set plip corectly?

thx

try modprobe plip and modprobe will insmod parport and bind it to plip for you and it will load ppp if it isen't compiled in to the kernel if it is no problem it's there and read to use

you don't see lp in /proc/devices because there is no device on /dev/lp0

parport is a stub for other modules and not realy a device driver

the standerd kernel that comes with almost all distros has every thing needed for setting up plip

but there's no modprobe onto basic linux

but thx anyway

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