On Wed, 24 May 2000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> For your own use, you could just put something in imm_detect like
> this:
>
> for (i = 0; pb; i++, pb = pb->next) {
> int modes, ppb;
>
> if (pb->number == 1)
> continue;
> ...
I will try this.
> Because it's faster to use bidirectional mode: your hardware offers
> assistance with ECP, but not with EPP (you can probably change this in
> the CMOS).
I will ask you at a later time concerning this.
> Out of interest, does the HP LJ have any device ID information of its
> own? Does parport report its name in the 'dmesg' output? I ask
> because an IEEE 1284-compliant device should just ignore imm's
> probing.
Here a syslog excerpt of modprobe lp:
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 7
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: 0x378: readIntrThreshold is 7
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: 0x378: PWord is 8 bits
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: 0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: 0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x4b
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: 0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=3
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,ECP,DMA]
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport0: Found 1 daisy-chained devices
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport0: No more nibble data (1 bytes)
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport0: device reported incorrect length field (61, should be 62)
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport0 (addr 0): SCSI adapter, IMG VP1
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport0: Found 1 daisy-chained devices
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport0: No more nibble data (1 bytes)
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport0: device reported incorrect length field (61, should be 62)
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport0 (addr 0): SCSI adapter, IMG VP1
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport1: PC-style at 0x278 [PCSPP]
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport1: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98)
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport1: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98)
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport1: No more nibble data (0 bytes)
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport1: faking semi-colon
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: parport1: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1100
May 24 14:02:29 mandala kernel: lp0: using parport1 (polling).
Is the `device reported incorrect length field (61, should be 62)' somehow
relevant?
Does this answer your question concerning HP LaserJet 1100 dev ID?
Best wishes
Norbert
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