Kyle wrote: > Andy Holcomb wrote: > >> Okay, I have tried all of the values I get from the lspci command and >> non of them work; but, the factory port at 378 does work. >> >> the values I got were >> dc00 >> d800 >> d400 >> d000 >> cc00 >> c800 >> >> From what I remember on emc1 I had to use d000 >> >> Andy >> >> >> >> Chris Radek wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:59:17PM -0500, Andy Holcomb wrote: >>> >>>> Remind me again how to find the address of the lpt ports. >>>> Where do I make this change of address? >>>> >>> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?NetMos >>> >>> >>> > > I was doing a bit of research and noticed a couple things. First, if one > is searching for something as mentioned in the wiki page above you could > use lspci -v | grep searchstring -A num ... searchstring being the > actual string one is looking for and num being the number of lines > following the string once it is located. Second, I admit I don't have > one of these cards yet, but I was curious as to how the port was > experimented with. Did the person just hook up to the parallel port and > change the I/O port number until they got a reaction at the output of > the port? > > Kyle > > That was me, and yes that's how I did it.
Since there was nothing that could be 'hurt' - I was simply trying out Netmos parport cards, hooked to a Xylotex driver and stepper, no machine involved - I just tried the different addresses listed by `lspci -v`, until I found the ones that worked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
