From looking at the parswitch driver, it seems the hard part is determining
how to communicate with my multiplexor to get it to switch. parswitch
appears to be a bare-bones clone of lp.c; is this an accurate assessment?
Thanks for your help.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Waugh" <twaugh@redhat.com>
To: "Mike Murphy" <mike@flipper.eskimo.net>
Cc: <linux-parport@torque.net>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [PARPORT] Port Multiplexor Problem
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:21:04AM -0800, Mike Murphy wrote:
> I recently purchased what I believed to be a port multiplexor (4
> way), but the parport driver doesn't seem to recognize it and only
> recognizes whichever printer is currently selected on the device. I
> suspect the multiplexor doesn't speak the 1284.3 protocol, if this
> is even a possibility (haven't read the spec or have much experience
> with these devices). It comes with some windows software which will
> (allegedly) operate the autoswitch.
There certainly are non-IEEE1284.3 multiplexors out there. For
example:
<URL:http://www.cs.albany.edu/~jklaas/parswitch/parswitch.html>.
Tim.
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