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| author | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-04-12 13:49:28 -0400 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-04-12 13:49:28 -0400 |
| commit | 8065248069097dddf9945acfb2081025e9618c16 (patch) | |
| tree | eddf3fb0372ba0f65c01382d386942ea8d18932d /Documentation/parport.txt | |
| parent | e66a8ddff72e85605f2212a0ebc666c7e9116641 (diff) | |
| parent | b4838d12e1f3cb48c2489a0b08733b5dbf848297 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/parport.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/parport.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/parport.txt b/Documentation/parport.txt index 93a7ceef398..c208e4366c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/parport.txt +++ b/Documentation/parport.txt @@ -36,18 +36,17 @@ addresses should not be specified for supported PCI cards since they are automatically detected. -KMod ----- +modprobe +-------- -If you use kmod, you will find it useful to edit /etc/modprobe.conf. -Here is an example of the lines that need to be added: +If you use modprobe , you will find it useful to add lines as below to a +configuration file in /etc/modprobe.d/ directory:. alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto -KMod will then automatically load parport_pc (with the options -"io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto") whenever a parallel port device driver -(such as lp) is loaded. +modprobe will load parport_pc (with the options "io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto") +whenever a parallel port device driver (such as lp) is loaded. Note that these are example lines only! You shouldn't in general need to specify any options to parport_pc in order to be able to use a |