Re: [Emc-users] Four Parallel ports
Hi, EMC2's parallel port driver will drive up to eight parallel ports. Cool. Lots of I/O. Is there a preferred layout for multiple cards? Should all my step and direction be on one and misc I/O on the others, or one axis with associated limits and whatnot on each card? Does it matter? 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? Have not tried this yet, I did the test on my non-emc Ubuntu desktop, so I was just fooling about. Interesting is that Win XP crashed on these cards and Ubuntu worked fine. Dan - 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
[Emc-users] Four Parallel ports
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 - 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
Re: [Emc-users] Four Parallel ports
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 - 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
Re: [Emc-users] Four Parallel ports
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
