Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:49:26 GMT From: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> To: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing to parallel port Message-ID: <200307251949.H6PJNQRS038082@asarian-host.net> References: <200307251722.H6PHMFRS032800@asarian-host.net> <200307251942.54397.Danovitsch@Vitsch.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> To: "Mark" <admin@asarian-host.net> Cc: <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 7:41 PM Subject: Re: Writing to parallel port > On Friday 25 July 2003 19:22, Mark wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Has anyone an idea how to set/unset a bit on a parallel port in > > freebsd 4.7? I installed Device::ParallelPort from CPAN > > (Perl 5.8.0), but that does nothing (seems made for linux). > > > > Or if someone could point me to a little c-source, that would be > > helpful too; all I need is to toggle a bit to switch a relay. > Have a look at this piece of code if wrote : > http://vitsch.net/cgi-bin/gpl/cat.cgi/lampd/v1.0?lampd.c > It's a very small udp network daemon to control my roomlights over the > LAN. > > Basically you need to open /dev/io to get io read/write permission, > after that you are free to bang all IO-ports you want. Thank you! :) Opening /dev/io did the trick. - Mark
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