Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:33:28 -0400 From: Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca> To: Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com> Cc: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> Subject: Re: parallel port *slow* (and plip probs.) Message-ID: <20040716003328.GB12833@afields.ca> In-Reply-To: <1089930990.18519.25.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> References: <2A1A414BD992B32464CA6FF3@palle.girgensohn.se> <1089914418.54518.7.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> <EF9A84A7DA4682C9497C1B71@palle.girgensohn.se> <1089930990.18519.25.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com>
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:36:30PM +0100, Antony T Curtis wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 22:07, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > > Only, the flags don't work, nothing seems to happen? Did you set to ECP mode in your BIOS? > > > > $ kenv | grep ppc > > hint.ppc.0.at="isa" > > hint.ppc.0.flags="0xc" > > hint.ppc.0.irq="7" > > $ dmesg | grep ppc > > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 > > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold > > ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 > > I must admit - I have only had it work properly when the flags was > compiled in the kernel config: > > device ppc0 at isa? flags 0x08 irq 7 drq 3 I've had ECP working in 5.1 & 5.2 using device.hints as I've been misusing a machine as PLIP router to provide old laptop w/ network since PCMCIA interface isn't working w/ installed kernel. dmesg: ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x8 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP-only) in ECP mode ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 device.hints: hint.ppc.0.at="isa" hint.ppc.0.irq="7" hint.ppc.0.flags="0x8" hint.ed.0.at="isa" > <snip> > > -- > Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com> -- Allan Fields, AFRSL - http://afields.ca 2D4F 6806 D307 0889 6125 C31D F745 0D72 39B4 5541
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