On Thursday, August 25, 2011 02:40:02 PM Viesturs Lācis did opine: > 2011/8/25 Kirk Wallace <[email protected]>: > > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 08:51 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: > > ...snip > > > >> > But dmesg shows: > >> > [ 8.962720] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP] > > > > "PCSPP" above seems to indicate that the port is not in EPP mode. > > Would setting the proper bit in a register fix this? I wrote a short > > utility, showport.c, to help me understand the parallel port, but > > seems to come in handy for setting bits too. > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Startech > This card Just Works(TM), I have it installed and have been using it for about 3 weeks now.
> Kirk, thank You, this script seems very promising! > I need some more details about Your script: > 1) In which folder should I put it and then in terminal "cd" to? > 2) How exactly should I run it? Address of parport is 0x378. How > exactly should that command look? > 3) Is the effect of setting the parport to EPP permanent or do I have > to run this every time before using EMC? > > Viesturs Cheers, gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://204.111.67.138:85/gene> Women are more easily and more deeply terrified ... generating more sheer horror than the male of the species. -- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold", stardate 3615.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
