On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Kirk Wallace wrote: >On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:13 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> I've added a Rosewill dual parport card to the kubuntu box I'm running my >> mill from, with intentions of adding some motors to my lathe. After I >> replace the lathe with a better one, this 7x12 is a bit light in the >> rigidity dept., plus its about worn out its spindle bearings I think. >> >> Other than the lspci output, I don't think the system did anything with it >> when it was rebooted after plugging in the card. I don't recognize >> anything in an lsmod output. >> >> lspci -vv: >> 0000:00:0a.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9815 >> Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01) >> Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 2P0S (2 port parallel >> adaptor) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- >> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- >> Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- >> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- >> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 >> Region 0: I/O ports at c000 [size=8] >> Region 1: I/O ports at c400 [size=8] >> Region 2: I/O ports at c800 [size=8] >> Region 3: I/O ports at cc00 [size=8] >> Region 4: I/O ports at d000 [size=8] >> Region 5: I/O ports at d400 [size=16] >> >> How do I go about getting this card to be usable for emc, or is this card >> too new for 6.06? > >(Please, forgive me if I am stating the obvious here.) >My first guess would be that one port is at C000 and the other is at >CC00. Using: > >loadrt hal_parport cfg="0xC000" >loadrt hal_parport cfg="0xCC00" >... >addf parport.0.read servo-thread >addf parport.1.read servo-thread >... >addf parport.0.write servo-thread >addf parport.0.write servo-thread > >in the .hal that loads your drivers might work. > >Then for testing: > >net SpindleFwd motion.spindle-forward parport.0.pin-01-out >net Flood iocontrol.0.coolant-flood parport.1.pin-01-out > >In your IO .hal file. > >You may have to try different addresses from the lspci list.
Thanks Kirk, I'll see what I can do when I get to actually needing it. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Brain fried -- Core dumped ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
