Re: [PARPORT] Upgrade 2.4.4 to 2.4.18 lost parallel port

From: Gunther Mayer (Gunther.Mayer@t-online.de)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 14:57:34 EDT

  • Next message: Andreas Nowatzyk: "Re: [PARPORT] Upgrade 2.4.4 to 2.4.18 lost parallel port"

    Andreas Nowatzyk wrote:
    >
    > SMSC chip at EFER=0x4e key=0x55 id=54 rev=04
    > oldid=0x00 oldrev=0x00
    > LDN 0( FDC): io=0x3f0, irq= 6, dma= 2
    > LDN 1(reserved): Disabled.
    > LDN 2(reserved): Disabled.
    > LDN 3( LPT): Disabled.
    ...
    >
    > However, the bottom line is that the PARPORT is fine after bios start and
    > broken after SuSE V8.0 boot. It seems rather daunting to locate where things
    > go wrong (the boot process does tons of things and is distributed over many
    > scripts, rc-files, configs, ...)

    Complain to Suse.

    >
    > So could you just tell me how to enable the #$#!! parport. All I want is
    > my printer back and I don't mind to run a stupid little enable program
    > before loading parport_pc.

    As a workaround follow instructions in "setsuperio-experts_only.c" from
    http://home.t-online.de/home/gunther.mayer/lssuperio/lssuperio-0.67.tar.bz2

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