Thanks Cokey - I appreciate yours, Anthony's and Ray's comments on this - this is EXACTLEY what I was looking for - stuff to look out for BEFORE I go to the trouble of doing it. I'm not a Linux Technical Guru and if I would have run into any of this while doing the installation, I wouldn't have known WHAT to ask.
Thanks again, I'll give this a shot sometime this weekend. :) Jim Hale --- Jim & Kathy's Website Collection http://hale.dyndns.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Cokey de Percin Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multiple Printers On 1 Box And Sharing Jim Hale wrote: > > I have an old P233MMX sitting in my garage that I'm thinking about > setting up as a Printer server. Kind of like a 'fat' HP JetDirect - so > I can move these printers anywhere I have a network connection since > the printers are sitting on a roll-around cart. > > Question is, can I have 2 printer ports in the machine (one for my > laser and one for my Color Inkjet) and be able to share them to Linux > and Windows (Win2k Pro and XP) machines? I know I can do it with one > but I haven't seen anything about 2. I'd like to get Red Hat installed > and configured, remove the monitor, keyboard and mouse and then just > access the box thru SSH and VNC. > > Has anyone tried this? > > Thanks! > > Jim Hale > --- Yup, got 3 on one (RH 6.2 with 2.4.18) at the moment with no modification. I believe I read that that was the limit without changing something in the kernel code, but I haven't confirmed it. If you're using an ISA card with manual settings, you shouldn't have much of a problem. Just chuck it in and the system should detect all the ports. You will need to be sure you have enough IRQ's/io ports and that are they set correctly. If it's ISA PNP, I'm not sure, but it's probably handled like the PCI below. If you're using a PCI card, my experience is that it's a bit of a different ball game. Since all the add on PCI parallel port boards that I've seen are PNP, You must determine the IRQ and/or io port on the card that you wish to attach to a given lp port using information from the boards manuf. and /proc/pci. By this I mean that it may not be obvious which io port on the card is to be used as for a parallel port. My dual port PCI parallel card shows up like this in the /proc/pci: Bus 0, device 5, function 0: Communication controller: PCI device 9710:9815 (rev 1). IRQ 20. Master Capable. Latency=64. I/O at 0xfc70 [0xfc77]. I/O at 0xfc78 [0xfc7f]. I/O at 0xfc88 [0xfc8f]. I/O at 0xfc90 [0xfc97]. I/O at 0xfc98 [0xfc9f]. I/O at 0xfcb0 [0xfcbf]. You must have the manuf. specs to know. Also, not all PCI parallel/serial cards are supported, although thanks to Tim Waugh of RH, many (most?) are. Note also that moving a PCI board usually/always (??) changes the io ports. In either case you must set the IRQ/io ports in your /etc/modules.conf. Mine looks like so: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - # # Current Parallel setup! Be Careful; Very Careful!! # # 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - For additional parallel port information see http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html Best Cokey -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ F. 'Cokey' de Percin, DBA Email: CSC (formerly Mynd) Work - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Columbia, South Carolina Home - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
