On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 13:35 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: ... snip > I don't want to volunteer to start such a page since I have zero > experience with these cards but I'll help edit the page if necessary > because I'm now on the hunt for plug-in cards for some new-ish > motherboards that lack a parallel port and I prefer to make new missteps > rather than repeat old ones:-) > > Regards, > Kent
For your setup, what do you want to connect to your parallel port? If you want to use software generated step/direction signals connected to a step/dir motor driver, most PCI cards will work. The NetMos based cards have the most documentation: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?NetMos If you need faster signals and decide to use an FPGA hardware signal generator, such as Pluto-P or Mesa's parallel port Anything boards, basically you're stick with the built-in motherboard ports. I haven't had any trouble using NetMos PCI cards with Jon's Universal boards. There is a utility that I believe is used to set the PCI or built-in port to EPP mode, but I haven't needed it, so I am not up to speed on the utility. The Lava PCI card I just got is the only non-NetMos card I have. I should document my experience with how it works with software and FPGA setups, hopefully soon. Where on the wiki to put this information, is a good question. I think a Parallel Port page that has a good search hit rate would be good. Maybe a stand alone page would be a good start, then work out the links later. I can try to help. I am not too experienced with authoring on the wiki, but there doesn't seem to be much magic to it. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
