I tried your little program on the PCI addon LPT and it made no impact. I can see the inputs from pin 2 up to pin 4 but pin 6,7 and8 remains in output mode for some reason Will the program work on the PCI card?
On 2013/06/20 08:25 PM, John Alexander Stewart wrote: > Alex - > > 1) Jon Elson knows what he is talking about. > > 2) I had difficulty setting the on-board D525MW parallel port so that I > could read data from my CNC4PC MPG controller. I *might* have been able to > use the 2nd port on the Mesa 5i25, but I was very inexperienced with the > 5i25 then. > > What I did was get code (from Jon Elson) that actually went out and set the > parallel port to the right mode, so that the required LPT pins could act as > input pins. > > I packaged it up, and now use it on a couple of computers. Setting the mode > within BIOS did NOT set the parallel port into the correct mode, for some > reason. > > There is an LPT port tester on the LinuxCNC site (link not available to me > ATM) that runs an on-screen viewer that shows the status of the input > lines. I'm certain I used that to see that some of the control signals from > my mpg was not making it back to the system. > > After the running of the "set the printer port" little program, all was ok. > > As mentioned, it *might* be possible to use the 2nd port on the 5i25 as a > general input port, but others here can confirm or reject that assumption. > > John A. Stewart > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Regards / Groete Marius D. Liebenberg MasterCut cc Cel: +27 82 698 3251 Tel: +27 12 743 6064 Fax: +27 86 551 8029 Skype: marius_d.liebenberg --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 130620-1, 2013/06/20 Tested on: 2013/06/20 10:40:45 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2013 AVAST Software. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
