Hi This was a vexed question for me after I made a pendant and need more IO to work it.
None of the Parport IO cards I tried would not work at all, the problem was getting them to work in EPP with pins 2-9 as inputs. I found previous entries from Jon, Kirk and others on this subject. By repeated experiment; setting bits for EPP mode, pre-loading parport drivers and then unloading before EMC, even setting the write flag for the device under /proc/bus/pci/??? I seem to recall, I got both computers running with MOSChip based cards (9845 I think). Once I managed to force them into mode, I did not have to repeat it all at every start up. What I did find however, was that 2 of the cards recommended (SIIG and Sun1188) would not work in input mode no matter what I did. This despite both functioning as such if used with Mach. There were also differences in getting the card to work under the same version of EMC ( seems to make no difference which one you use), almost identical computers (same make model, just 4Mhz difference in processor speed). So the moral is, it will be easy once you have done it, keep hitting your head on it !! regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
