Re: [PARPORT] Re: 4008a pci parallel port controller

From: Jason Cumiskey (jtc@uvic.ca)
Date: Sat Sep 09 2000 - 19:16:37 EDT

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    Thanks for the information.

    I will give the 2.2.17 kernel a try and see if that helps. If not, I will wait
    till 2.4 becomes stable (which seems pretty soon).

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote:
    >
    > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:25:18PM -0700, Jason Cumiskey wrote:
    >
    > > I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001].
    > > I/O at 0xb800 [0xb801].
    > >
    > > For now, I have done an insmod parport.o
    > > then an insmod parport_pc.o io=0x378,0xb800 irq=7,none
    >
    > Did you try 'insmod parport_pc io=0x378,0xd000 irq=7,none'?
    >
    > > As you are suggesting to wait for a later kernel, I am guessing that this may
    > > be a common problem with these cards??
    >
    > There are lots of different cards with the same PCI vendor and device
    > IDs, but which differ in subdevice ID. Unfortunately, the 2.2 parport
    > code isn't up to telling these apart without a lot of help; the 2.4
    > kernel _does_ do that though, so it should be alright.
    >
    > Tim.
    > */
    >

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