[systemd-devel] udev rules for MCS7715 USB-attached parallel port

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 21.02.16 15:26, Alex Henrie (alexhenrie24 at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I recently bought an MCS7715 USB-attached parallel port,[1] but there
> seem to be a couple of problems using it with Linux:
> 
> 1. The lp, parport, and parport_pc kernel modules are not loaded when
> the device is plugged in.

AFAIK parport_pc is the driver for old built-in parallel ports, it
it not used f you have a USB paralell port adapter.

> 2. After manually loading the kernel modules, /dev/lp0 is not deleted
> when the device is unplugged.

/dev/lp0 is also the old built-in parallel port. USB printers and
parallel ports show up as /dev/usb/lp0 or so..

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat