On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 07:01, John Rye wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying again, now that I've had some hair re-growth > > Anyone had experience with these devices? > > I have need of a second //port on my beast (AthlonXP 1.8 on a Soltek > SL-KT400-A4/L Mobo running stock Mandrake 9.0) to run my ancient but > reliable Epson GT-4000 scanner (with ADF unit). > > The scanner works fine when configured as a GT-5000 or 5500 and run > off the existing onboard parallel port, however I need a printer as well. > > So I obtained a Netmos 9805 card and got it working out of Win98SE > without too much hassle - but I cannot get it to work out of Linux. > > I have since removed all traces of win98 from the box!! Don't need it! > > The card is recognised in /proc/pci as follows: > > Bus 0, device 11, function 0: > Communication controller: PCI device 9710:9805 (NetMos Technology)(rev 1). > IRQ 19. > Master Capable. Latency=64. > I/O at 0xe800 [0xe807]. > I/O at 0xe400 [0xe407]. > I/O at 0xe000 [0xe007]. > I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc07]. > I/O at 0xd800 [0xd807]. > I/O at 0xd400 [0xd40f]. > > As I understand I need to 'insmod parport.o' and then tell 'parport' > where it is. > > Problem is that when I do the 'insmod parport.o' I get: > > [root@numbnuts john]# insmod parport.o > insmod: parport.o: No such file or directory > [root@numbnuts john]# > > I've since removed the '.o' and get a silent return to prompt. > > Now I would expect to see another reference to parport in dmesg after a reboot > but don't see anything different. > > Dmesg still only references parport0 as being tied to lp0. > > I worked out how to create the second port reference with mknod, and I've got > that to stick through reboots. > > I think I've read everything, but I just can't work this one out. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated
Ok, I have a similar board and mine works this way; there are 6 ports, with the 1st, 3rd & 5th ports used by the paralled ports (if you have that many). I have two, so I use the 1st and 3rd. The part of the modules.conf that matters is this: # Note: Anytime the PCI parallel card is moved to a different # PCI slot, the io ports change. Check the /proc/pci # file for the new ones.... alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378,0xfc70,0xfc88 irq=7,none,none I would guess that yours should look like this (for one port) alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc options parport_pc io=0x378,0xe800 irq=7,none Note 1) if you move the board, the ports change and that breaks everything... 2) I'm not using irq's for the 2nd & 3rd ports. It's more efficient if you do, but I haven't messed since it worked and the last two parallel ports are rarely used anyway. Best Cokey -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ F. 'Cokey' de Percin, DBA Email: CSC Work - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Columbia, South Carolina Home - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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