Re: Questions

["Richard Zimmerman" <ke4rit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Wow! Ask a good question and everyone comes out of the wood work!

    Thanks for all the replies....

>It's new in the 2.2 kernels.
>It's the hardware driver for a _PC_ style parallel port.
>It doesn't work without it, believe me!   :{)
>
>I don't know if there are other style parallel ports for PC's or not.
>If not, then maybe it's in there for other platforms, like Alpha,
>Power PC, Sparc, etc., which have different hardware drivers?


    Hmmm.. I was kind of thinking it was for parallel port devices (tape
drives, etc.)... Obviously not....

    I guess it's a bad idea to remove it, eh? <G>

--- On Another Subject ---

    Some of you know I've been smashing in my brains over PPP for 2 days
now. There is light at the end of the tunnel! I still have not got it
loading automatically during boot up, still got to get the route commands to
execute, but when I do it manually, it WORKS!!!!!

    A darn good improvement over yesterday!!! <Big Grin> I feel like I just
did a triathlon... <Smile>

    Bruce, I might have a few suggestions for the ppp mini-howto on the
website, but it was the document that got me going in the right
direction.... I tried diald (and removed it!) and a need to RTFM a little
closer next time...

    Thanks again for the answers!

    Goose