On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Steven wrote about, Re: PLIP:
> Richard Adams wrote:
> >
>
> The two computers (386 laptop, 486 desktop) do not configure
> the parallel port in their BIOS setups.
Once the interface is up there is the procfs interface,
/proc/parport/0/*
As to changing things there i have no knowlage of.
>
> > One thing i noticed is that if the system is booted and
> > the "lp" module gets loaded first, then my systems did not
> > work either. Starting linux without loading lp helped but
> > NOT all of the time, why i dont know.
>
> I've used a DOS boot floppy (with PLIP packetdriver and ping)
> to test all five computers. The three computers that work
> with Linux PLIP all work with DOS PLIP. The remaining two
> computers don't work with either version of PLIP.
>
> I can accept that those two computers have inadequate
> parallel ports. However, I do not understand why
> intersvr/interlnk (MS-DOS) works perfectly on those
> same ports.
Perhaps 'plipconfig' can help here, man plipconfig for details.
>
> Thanks for your reply, Richard.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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