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.



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