Daniel Kavanagh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I stuck 3 PCI parallel port cards into my pc. Without any work at all 
> I could print from two of them. Very neat and I am assuming because they 
> will print I can attach those for extra I/O.
> 
>   But the 3rd card was not a parallel port, as you only get three total, 
> (one on board and two expansion on the PCI bus)
> 
>   It was there in the hardware profile and it looked just like all the 
> others but it did not get the parallel port driver attached to it.
> 
>   Is there another way to read and write to it? for extra I/O?
> 

EMC2's parallel port driver will drive up to eight parallel ports.

The hard part is finding out the hardware addresses of the ports. 
Plug-n-Pray operating systems and the PCI bus have made things 
complicated.  Do the ports show up when you run 'lspci' from the command 
line?

Regards,

John Kasunich

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