On Friday 15 December 2006 05:32, Mr CW wrote: > Now, my real question is: how do I read data from the parallel port on the > FreeBSD computer that is coming from the tester which is trying to 'print' > to the FBSD computer's parallel port? Is there a suggested pinout for a > parallel crossover calbe to accomplish this task with ppi? Is the > crossover cable even required?
I think you would need to wire ACK to STROBE at the very least.. I kind of suspect you'd need to write a ppbus driver because lpt only returns the printer status when read. > Finally, is there a FBSD-sanctioned parallel port driver for use with Perl > instead of using ppi and C? It would be pretty easy to write a wrapper to use ppi in Perl (eg SWIG) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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