Try doing a "modprobe pcd" then look at your dmesg again.
-AL
At 01:52 PM 12/4/2003, Shawn Koons wrote:
>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
>
>---------------------
>
>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)
>
>---------------------
>
>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
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>--
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>And religion may, in a real sense, be understood as a popular
>misunderstanding of mythology.
>
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