[PARPORT] problems with parallel port card

From: Kelly Black (black@sunfs.math.usu.edu)
Date: Sun May 20 2001 - 14:31:07 EDT

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    Hello,

    I am having difficulty getting a parallel port card working on my system.
    I will first describe what I have and then describe how I am trying to get
    the card working...

    I am using redhat 7.1, and when I do an 'lspcia -bvvxxx' my card shows up as:

    00:0e.0 Parallel controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd: Unknown device 8403 (prog-if 03 [IEEE1284])
            Subsystem: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd: Unknown device 0000
            Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
            Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
            Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 3
            Region 0: I/O ports at 1078
            Region 1: I/O ports at 1070
            Region 2: I/O ports at 1020
            Region 3: Memory at f4008000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
    00: 15 14 03 84 03 01 80 02 00 03 01 07 00 00 00 00
    10: 79 10 00 00 71 10 00 00 21 10 00 00 00 80 00 f4
    20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 15 14 00 00
    30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 01 00 00
    40: 01 00 01 6c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

    I looked on the redhat website and this card is listed as being supported
    using parport (vendor id: 1415, device id: 8403). My modules.conf file
    has the following:

    alias /dev/printers lp
    alias /dev/lp* lp
    alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

    I've tried to get this thing working using the following commands:

    [root@kjblack init.d]# /sbin/insmod parport
    Using /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/kernel/drivers/parport/parport.o
    [root@kjblack init.d]# /sbin/insmod parport_pc io=0x1078 irq=auto
    Using /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.o
    [root@kjblack init.d]# /sbin/insmod lp parport=1
    Using /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/kernel/drivers/char/lp.o

    I've tried all sorts of combinations with the io address and have tried using
    'irq=3' as well. When I do an 'lsmod' it lists the three modules above
    so it does load the modules. So far nothing has worked. I've tried putting
    the options in the /etc/modules.conf file as well.

    I've tried adding the options in the lilo.conf file but that didn't
    do anything either. I don't think that parport has been compiled into
    the kernel. Moreover, when it boots it tries to load ppa. I've tried
    everything to stop this, but I can't figure why it keeps doing it.
    (I did not compile it into the kernel when I installed it when I
    was using 6.2 before upgrading to 7.1.) When I do an lsmod the ppa
    module does not appear.

    Here is the message it spits out when it tries to load ppa during reboot:
    unresolved symbol parport_register_device_Rf274b881
    unresolved symbol parport_unregister_device_Rb0814cd3
    unresolved symbol parport_release_Rf8ec22de
    unresolved symbol parport_claim_R4c7222c6
    unresolved symbol parport_enumerate_Rbc847709

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    Dept. of Math. and Stat.        FAX:   (435) 797-1822   \_____(_)/ (_)
    Utah State University           e-mail: black@math.usu.edu
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    Logan UT 84322-3900
    

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