[cpia] Hi!

[Peter Pregler]

On 21-Jan-00 Luis Villa wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Peter Pregler wrote:
>> On 21-Jan-2000 Luis Villa wrote:
>> >       Finally, what is the state of the drivers? I know I need to 
>> > upgrade to 2.3.x for this, but what does "semi-functional" mean,
>> > exactly? 
>> 
>> That is wrong. The driver is not yet working with 2.3.x though the port is
>> underway. The 0.5-version is submitted to Alan and might appear in the
>> kernel in version 2.2.16. For the tarball available right now any 2.2.X
>> will do.
> 
> I thought the 0.5 version was for parport only. Does this mean there is no
> USB support at this time? Not a big deal, but it would be nice to have the
> option. 

Yes, 0.5 is parport and 2.2.X only. People are working on adding the usb-code
that is in 2.3.x and porting the 0.5-version to 2.3.x. AFAIK there are no plans
to do any usb-stuff with 2.2.x kernels.

Greetings, Peter

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