Hi folks,
I'm trying again, now that I've had some hair re-growth
Anyone had experience with these devices?
I have need of a second //port on my beast (AthlonXP 1.8 on a Soltek
SL-KT400-A4/L Mobo running stock Mandrake 9.0) to run my ancient but
reliable Epson GT-4000 scanner (with ADF unit).
The scanner works fine when configured as a GT-5000 or 5500 and run
off the existing onboard parallel port, however I need a printer as well.
So I obtained a Netmos 9805 card and got it working out of Win98SE
without too much hassle - but I cannot get it to work out of Linux.
I have since removed all traces of win98 from the box!! Don't need it!
The card is recognised in /proc/pci as follows:
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Communication controller: PCI device 9710:9805 (NetMos Technology)(rev 1).
IRQ 19.
Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe807].
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe407].
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe007].
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc07].
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd807].
I/O at 0xd400 [0xd40f].
As I understand I need to 'insmod parport.o' and then tell 'parport'
where it is.
Problem is that when I do the 'insmod parport.o' I get:
[root@numbnuts john]# insmod parport.o
insmod: parport.o: No such file or directory
[root@numbnuts john]#
I've since removed the '.o' and get a silent return to prompt.
Now I would expect to see another reference to parport in dmesg after a reboot
but don't see anything different.
Dmesg still only references parport0 as being tied to lp0.
I worked out how to create the second port reference with mknod, and I've got
that to stick through reboots.
I think I've read everything, but I just can't work this one out.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Cheers
John
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