modprobe lp by default?

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> Folks who are using parallel printers need the 'lp' module loaded, but as
> far as I know, there's no mechanism for this to happen by default.  I'm not
> even sure that it's possible to automate, without trying to detect whether
> there's something that smells like a parallel printer attached to the
> parallel port.

I remember that detection on parallel port depends on a variety of
conditions that it is difficult to achive. Perhaps it's easier to just
load the lp module.

Fabio

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