Paralle port kernel modules?

[lodp]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering how the parallel port control works in Oleg's firmware, and whether I can work out a way to use that information to make the parallel port work in the DD-WRT firmware for Asus (which for some reason doesn't support it).

I did some searches, and it seems to me that there's 2 kernel modules responsible for the parallel port -- parport and parport_splink. However, I couldn't find packages for those, and I'm not enough linux-savvy to go find the sources and compile them myself. Would it even be sufficient to install the modules and load them?

I know this is actually rather a case for the DD-WRT forums, but I never get any responses over there, and since the parallel port works so well in Oleg's firmware, I thought I'd give it a shot here.

EDIT: Damn, typo in the subject, sorry..

[lodp]

Alright, I found packages for the modules:

http://www.freewrt.org/downloads/1.0/brcm-2.4/packages/kmod-parport_2.4.33.3-brcm-1_mipsel.ipk
http://www.freewrt.org/downloads/1.0/brcm-2.4/packages/kmod-parport-splink_2.4.33.3-brcm-1_mipsel.ipk

the modules installed and loaded fine, but now what? I can't find any printers in /dev to start p910nd with... is there anything else I need to install first? For the lack of an alternative (all of this being trial-and-error based), I installed kmod-usb-printer, but the module wouldn't load...

[lodp]

a little help here? looks like i'm stuck here ...

[simao]

Any luck with the parallel port?