On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 14:41 -0400, 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? > > Dan
For use as IO for EMC2, I believe that you don't want the ports to show up as printer ports. A Linux printer driver will conflict with the EMC2 driver, so you will need to keep Ubuntu from loading the printer driver for the EMC2 IO ports. You can load the EMC parport driver, for up to eight parports, in your .ini file that loads your other drivers. See: http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//hal_drivers.html#sec:Parport -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC/EMC CNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion pending Craftsman AA 109 restoration Shizuoka ST-N/EMC CNC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
