Hello,
I am attempting to get my machine to recognize my Backpack cd-rewriter.
I will attempt to give as much info as I can. Please accept apologies in
advance if I give too much, or the wrong, information.
*I use Tiny Linux, based on Slackware 4.0.
*I have a Compaq LTE 5300 laptop P133 w/48 meg ram.
*My dmesg is:
Linux version 2.2.6 (root@zap) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #20 Tue Apr 27
15:23:25 CDT 1999
Detected 133343796 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 53.04 BogoMIPS
Memory: 46720k/49152k available (1204k kernel code, 408k reserved, 764k
data, 56k init)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
hda: IBM-DTCA-24090, ATA DISK drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: IBM-DTCA-24090, 3909MB w/468kB Cache, CHS=993/128/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
linear personality registered
raid0 personality registered
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 56k freed
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256).
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)
PPP line discipline registered.
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.9
kernel build: 2.2.6 #20 Sat Apr 17 23:17:12 CDT 1999
options: [pci] [cardbus]
Intel PCIC probe:
Cirrus PD672x ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, 2 sockets
host opts [0]: [ring] [65/6/3] [1/15/3]
host opts [1]: [ring] [65/6/3] [1/15/3]
ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12 polling interval = 1000 ms
cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding 0x1028-0x102f 0x1220-0x122f
0x1320-0x1327 0x1378-0x137f 0x1388-0x138f 0x13e8-0x13ff 0x1428-0x142f
0x1778-0x177f 0x17e8-0x17ff
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x320-0x327
0x388-0x38f 0x428-0x42f 0x480-0x48f
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: clean.
xirc2ps_cs.c 1.31 1998/12/09 19:32:55 (dd9jn+kvh)
eth0: auto negotation failed; using 10mbs
eth0: media 10BaseT, silicon revision 5
eth0: Xircom: port 0x300, irq 3, hwaddr 00:10:A4:FF:9A:05
tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
paride: version 1.04 installed
paride: bpck registered as protocol 0
pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0
pda: 0x378 is parport0
pda: Autoprobe failed
pd: no valid drive found
*I read the webpage http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html, but am
still confused.
*I have also read as many articles in the archive as I could find
containing the subject backpack, but am still confused.
*I do not know how to mess with the kernel, so I did not try to load
paride and the drivers as modules (Especially since they are already
compiled (?) in the kernel.
*There is a script that accompanies the subsection "using a paride
device" that I do not know what to do with. I also do not know how to
create the device "special device" as mentioned there.
*When I "insmod bpck" I get the response:
/lib/modules/2.2.6/misc/bpck.o: a module named bpck already exists
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The port worked when I tried to set up the printer, but after an initial
successful test page printing, I cannot get the printer to work. When I
give the command:
lpr -Plp foo.file
The printer coughs and starts to load a piece of paper, then freezes.
when I "lpq" I find it empty. (I only mention this as possible help to
diagnose the backpack problem. I will tackle the printing at another time)
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The Backpack unit works when I swap the HD with one containing win98 (I
do not dual boot). The printer port (Windows name for Parallel port) is
on interrupt 7 at 0378-037B with no conflicts.
In the bios there is no setting for ecp or the like. The only thing
listed is:
enable advanced LPT mode
which can be toggled on or off. (a quick web search did nothing to
explain what this means).
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Any help will be greatly appreciated. My goal in starting this project
was to learn as much as possible about administering my own linux box. I
have used linux in the past, but I did not get into it more than a
casual workstation user. I now want to learn about things from the
command line up.
Shawn
-- Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a real sense, be understood as a popular misunderstanding of mythology.Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That
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