Thanks! this is helping me a bit more, although Windows is still crashing
with a blue screen, Windows at least sees the parallel port. I'll keep
trying, but will have to put this project on hold until tuesday.
On Friday 19 January 2001 02:49 pm, you wrote:
> From what I've been told (and had success with), as root, run wins
On Friday 19 January 2001 02:49 pm, you wrote:
> From what I've been told (and had success with), as root, run winsetup,
> and configure devices. Somewhere in there is a list of custom devices or
> something like that. You need to configure the ecp1 device. Set the port
> and IRQ to what linux reports them to be (or if you already know them).
> See /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports. Once that is set, you need to
> make sure all users can use them (Should be set to usable by all).
>
> You may need to run winsetup as the normal user too, I forget. Then start
> up windows, and run add new hardware from control panel. It should detect
> the parallel port just fine. Note that while windows is running, using
> the parallel port, the lpd program reports in the syslog that the printer
> is "on fire" and printing will not work.
>
> I'll try to get more details if need be. There are some others here that
> know it better than I.
>
> Michael
>
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, John Hiemenz wrote:
> > Running Win4Lin2 on Caldera eDesktop kernel 2.2.14w4l
> >
> > I'm trying to enable a Hasp parallel dongle to use a
> > software package my company developed.
> >
> > Anything special I may need to do in regards to installation or Win4Lin
> > or the dongle software to get windows to 'see' the dongle? Everytime I
> > get the Hasp dongle software installed and try to run the application,
> > Windows crashes with a blue screen.
> >
> > Perhaps the fact that Windows sin't showing as seeing a parallel port has
> > something to do with it? I have a parallel port and activate it using
> > 'insmod lp' prior to running Win4Lin, but windows still does not see it.
> >
> > Running the 'Install new hardware' wizard in windows doesn't even see a
> > parallel port.
> >
> > Now what? Can this work or did I get the wrong software for my needs?
> >
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