Re: Supporting legacy parallel-port dependent HW via USB-to-parallel and virtualization
2010/1/18 Udi Finkelstein linux...@udif.com I have an old universal programmer (i.e. for programming Flash/PLD/Microcontroller chips) that is parallel port based. Since new computers with a parallel port are harder to come by (if at all), I'm looking for a solution that will let me use it with a USB connection. Is there a solution that involves a USB to parallel cable, Yes, there are few of thous. and a virtualization software that traps HW parallel port accesses and emulate them through the USBparallel interface? In linux it's a terminal based device, so you need to map it to a non serial device and you should be able to work with it. The control program for the above programmer only runs under W2000 or DOS, but the virtualization solution can run under Linux. thanks, Udi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il Ido ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Supporting legacy parallel-port dependent HW via USB-to-parallel and virtualization
2010/1/18 Udi Finkelstein linux...@udif.com I have an old universal programmer (i.e. for programming Flash/PLD/Microcontroller chips) that is parallel port based. Since new computers with a parallel port are harder to come by (if at all), I'm looking for a solution that will let me use it with a USB connection. Is there a solution that involves a USB to parallel cable, and a virtualization software that traps HW parallel port accesses and emulate them through the USBparallel interface? The control program for the above programmer only runs under W2000 or DOS, but the virtualization solution can run under Linux. thanks, Udi I don't think such a thing will work since in DOS, those programmers accessed the hardware directly (no device driver) so I am not sure it such a thing can work. I would be happy to hear of a working solution. -- Ori Idan ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Supporting legacy parallel-port dependent HW via USB-to-parallel and virtualization
There are plenty of usb to parallel port. http://www.google.com/search?q=usb+to+parallel+portie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=org.mozilla:he:officialclient=firefox-a you can find on ebay as well. They are very cheap at ebay. http://shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw=usb+to+parallel+port_sacat=_ex_kw=_mPrRngCbx=1_udlo=_udhi=_sop=12 but don't expect it to be fast. 2010/1/18 Udi Finkelstein linux...@udif.com I have an old universal programmer (i.e. for programming Flash/PLD/Microcontroller chips) that is parallel port based. Since new computers with a parallel port are harder to come by (if at all), I'm looking for a solution that will let me use it with a USB connection. Is there a solution that involves a USB to parallel cable, and a virtualization software that traps HW parallel port accesses and emulate them through the USBparallel interface? The control program for the above programmer only runs under W2000 or DOS, but the virtualization solution can run under Linux. thanks, Udi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
