On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:09:08PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I guess the PCI IDs aren't sufficient, which is too bad. Oddly enough, the
> box says that it comes with Linux drivers and the disk label even indicates
> that they're on there but there's no trace of them anywhere. The card is a
> StarTech PCI1PECP with a NetMos 9805 chip on board.
The issue seems to be that the NetMos 9805, say, can support either
one or two parallel ports, and maybe a serial port or two, and in any
configuration it has the same PCI IDs. I don't know how to
distinguish between the various situations.
> Since you seem to know what's up, can you recommend a PCI parallel
> port card that actually works? I obviously don't mind building
> patched kernels if that's what it takes.
The list of supported cards is at
<URL:http://cyberelk.net/tim/parport/cards.html>, but it is based on
Linus-released kernels, not Red Hat-released kernels.
Tim.
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