Re: lpdev v0.6

[Kay Roemer <roemer@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>]

> I have also noticed that lpdev ceased to work after applying Kay's net
> patches to the kernel. Apparently, there is interference with the PLIP
> driver, which is not too surprising since each one wants to reprogram
> the MFP interrupt source 0 for its own use. You could probably fix the
> problem by commenting out the PLIP code (haven't tested); more simply,
> just send anything to /dev/centr, after that /dev/lp should work just
> fine. (I haven't an explanation for this, but I guess that PLIP fiddles
> with the active edge register, and that -one- Centronics interrupt is
> enough to put things back in order.)

Yes, the PLIP driver changes nearly all registers having to do with
the centronics port, including AER.

I will upload Mint-Net 0.51 today which has loadable Network Interfaces.
So if you wan't to use your centronix port for printing you just leave
out plip.xif :)

Kay.