'PPDEV' : how to install ??

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Wed Aug 31 07:58:09 UTC 2005


> I have got a program ("avrdude") that makes use of the parallel port of
> the machine.  Problem : it can't open the parport. Reading the program's
> documentation, it says that it uses the "ppdev interface" to access the
> parport. So I guess Ubuntu doesn't come with this by default, whatever
> it is (library ? kernel module ?).
> I seached Synaptic (with universe and multiverse enabled) for 'ppdev',
> but it did't return a single match ! :-/
> 
> Hopefully one of the devs is reading this and can enlighten me ?? :-(


Please ignore the noise, I ventured with a "sudo modprobe ppdev" and all
is well now ! :o)  I added it to /etc/modules....

I should have guessed that my penguin was more clever than I ! ;o)


--
Vince





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