Re: Analysis of 6.1

[JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>]

> From: Birger Langkjer <birger.langkjer@image.dk>
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 23:50:43 +0200
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> Den tir, 26 okt 1999 skrev du:
> ..
> > I have the same symptom: I dicovered it is realated to /dev/ppp the
> > device independent PPP driver.  Strnagely Isee the device when doing a
> > cat /proc/devices on the PII I have at work but not in the K6 I use at
> > home so my guess is that the 586 kernel lacks some drivers who are
> > present in the 686 kernel.
> 
> I have a K6 too so maybe we're on to something. Kppp can't find device ppp0 and
> the printer configuration in controlcenter can't find /dev/lp0, lp1 or lp2 so I
> can't configure my printer.
> 

I found that for some reason the conf.modules is doen in a such way
that the parport_pc module is not being inserted (should be an alias
from parport_lowlevel to parport_pc)

Once I fixed it my // Zip drive started working.

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			Jean Francois Martinez

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