[NTLUG:Discuss] modprobe ppa says that parport is busy

[Neil Aggarwal]

Al:

When I booted the system and did /sbin/lsmod, here is what I got:
    ds                       5740        2
    i82365                22640      2
    pcmcia_core      39912      0      [ds i82365]

Then, I ran /sbin/modprobe ppa and got the same device busy error.

After doing this, I ran /sbin/lsmod, and I got this:
    parport_probe    2890        0    (autoclean) (unused)
    parport                7124        0    [parport_probe]
    ds                       5740        2
    i82365                22640      2
    pcmcia_core      39912      0      [ds i82365]

Any help you can provide is really appreciated.

Thanks,
    Neil.

> > I am trying to get my parallel port ZIP drive to work. According to
> > several messages that I read, I can type
> >   /sbin/modprobe ppa
> > to do it.
> >
> > But, when I try it, I get an error message:
> > /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> > parport: Device or resource busy.
>
>         Probably have other module(s) loaded that access the parallel
> port.  Post the output of the command "lsmod", and we'll see what's in
> there that might be hogging the paraport.
>