Hi Andrew,
the parallel card might be like some ethernet cards that
just need to have the irq option and not the io=0xnnn which is
probed for.
parport.txt in my 2.4.18 kernel doc says that the Base I/O addresses
(for supported cards) need not be specified.
insmod parport_pc irq=7
hth,
Keith.
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Andrew J Sands wrote:
> However, even if I add it to my modules.conf on my custom 2.4.18 kernel when
> I attempt to access the port it reports "Device is busy" yada, yada......,
> If I don't add it to the modules.conf as suggested by parport.txt because
> PCI devices are detected automagically then its not found and when accessing
> the port the response is "No port at address....."
