All PCI/e LPT cards work for software stepping with RTAI if the
mainboard and CPU have low enough latency. This most often limited by a
bad/broken BIOS that doesn't let the user kill power management, speed
stepping, etc..

The PCI/e LPT cards that you have to watch out for are those that have
broken EPP. This is only a problem if you are using LPT with EPP to Mesa
7i43.

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WCH  this PCIe LPT card just
needs a kernel patch for Dev. ID 3050.

The wiki mentions two PCI LPT cards with issues:

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Startech

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SIIG

Are there any other PCI/e LPT cards that don't work well with software
stepping right to a BOB (break out board)?

-Bari


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