Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> Linux screws
> the whole thing up by ARBITRARILY (currently) hard assigning
> the ports in order lp0 (378) lp1 (278) and lp3 (3BC)
Well, Linux does it it's way. It's as consistent as DOS, just
different. :-)
> Following some advice from Juegren Leising, I killed lp with a
> modprobe -r lp. Now the Ditto box worked but sans printing.
So the lp module does the polling.
> I looked for a command to selectively start polling on specific
> addresses and had some luck.
You can read the code (and docu) for the options in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/lp.c, somewhere down in the code:
/* Command line parameters:
[...]
Syntax: lp=port0[,irq0[,port1[,irq1[,port2[,irq2]]]]]
For example: lp=0x378,0 or lp=0x278,5,0x378,7
Note that if this feature is used, you must specify *all* the ports
[...]
*/
You can set the parameters in /etc/conf.modules if you use
modules (see man modprobe for the format).
> Now my printers work and my Ditto box does also. All of
> this under SlakWare 3.5 (2.0.36). The problem is that
> I want to use RedHat 5.2 (Apollo) and the damned FTAPE
> latest skatey-eight version, won't compile.
if ($Linux{Version} >= 2.2) {
print "You need the latest *un*stable FTAPE (at the\n";
print "moment) since kernel structures have changed.\n";
} else {
print "Send logs, maybe we can help.\n"
};
> I'll porbably have to
> compile my RedHat kernel. Sure hope that's easier than FTAPE
> has been. Just a compile away !
Right!
> PS... Please understand that my Linux knowledge is VERY shallow and
> what I think I saw maybe far from reality. The encouragement and help
> I've received from various sources is greatly appreciated.
Naah, you understand Linux quite well; at least you understand
how to get friends with Linux.
-Wolfgang
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