Hi Brad and folks, My BIOS parallel port setting is 378/IRQ7, the "Onboard Parallel Mode" setting is currently set to ECP (whatever that means - my BIOS choices are: Manual, EPP, ECP, and ECP/EPP), and "ECP Mode Use DMA" setting is 3. This should mean that I wouldn't need to load the parport_pc module with the other parameters per your suggestion, doesn't it? This is a fairly new board and processor (Intel 1.2 Ghz Celeron) that I assembled specifically to be my Bering box, so its BIOS settings are pretty flexible. I'm sorry...can you tell me how to issue the "cat" commands before and after the modules (I don't know how to do that :-( ) Thank you all for your help and suggestions!
Craig -----Original Message----- From: Brad Fritz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:23 PM To: Craig Caughlin Cc: LEAF Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Bering print server set-up Craig, On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:53:39 PST Craig Caughlin wrote: > Hey Brad, > Thanks for all the suggestions!!! Here are my results below, and it seems > like my problem is that my box cannot create /dev/lp0: error 16??? Is that > right? Any suggestions? Thank you very much! That's not a good sign. A hunch tells me it might be an interrupt conflict or I/O problem. Does your BIOS let you enable and disable the parallel port? If so, is it enabled? Does the BIOS have interrupt and/or I/O settings for it? You may need to load the parport_pc module with: insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 (Assuming your parallel port is using the IO port at 0x378 and IRQ 7. More info at, including a description of the /proc/sys/dev/parport tree at : http://dan.drydog.com/docs/redhat/kernel-doc-2.4.18/parport.txt ) Also, what is the output of "cat /proc/interrupts" and "cat /proc/ioports" both before and after loading the modules. --Brad > Craig [very complete reply to debugging suggestions snipped] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
