Opened 22 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
#227 closed defect (fixed)
check whether tunelp works with 2.4.x kernels
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | CVS |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
From chukhung@… on lfs-dev
In Chapter 6 of the book where it describes the installation of the util-linux package, is it worth noting that the tunelp program doesn't work with the 2.4 kernel?
I've been setting up printing (CUPS rocks) and I wanted to use tunelp to make my parallel port interrupt-driven. I kept getting "tunelp: ioctl: Invalid argument" messages. After some research on the net, I found the following:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0103.2/0030.html
which says, "tunelp doesn't work with 2.4 kernels right now. It's on my list of things to fix. Read Documentation/parport.txt to find out about how to adjust things like that." That message was written back in March, but it looks like tunelp was still broken as of util-linux-2.11l. Can anyone with the 2.11m version of util-linux installed confirm that tunelp doesn't work even in the latest release?
This is another nitpick, but if it had been noted in the book, it would have saved me some time figuring out what was wrong.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 22 years ago
| Priority: | normal → lowest |
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comment:2 by , 21 years ago
comment:3 by , 21 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
This is old, and stale, and probably no longer even applies. If this becomes a problem again, we can open a new bug.
A quick test by me leads to believe that the tunelp command from util-linux 2.11z has a fixed tunelp command - it no longer gives an error when being used to control a lp port.