Quick Start 2. OK so you have purchased a new zip drive and now you want to use it.
Some distributions have the modules already built.
You can try insmod ppa for starters. If the ppa program is not there, then configure the kernel. My machine has 2 parallel ports, one for the zip and one for the printer. This makes things easy, no cable switching. If you had trouble with any of the previous steps, see the following sections for more detailed instructions.