Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:25:16 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Mr CW <mrcomputerwiz@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Capturing Parallel Port Data Message-ID: <200612152025.17442.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <BAY127-F187D6C4606B7092264F699B3D50@phx.gbl> References: <BAY127-F187D6C4606B7092264F699B3D50@phx.gbl>
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--nextPart35339965.rcyN62s719 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 15 December 2006 05:32, Mr CW wrote: > Now, my real question is: how do I read data from the parallel port on t= he > FreeBSD computer that is coming from the tester which is trying to 'print' > to the FBSD computer's parallel port? Is there a suggested pinout for a > parallel crossover calbe to accomplish this task with ppi? Is the > crossover cable even required? I think you would need to wire ACK to STROBE at the very least.. I kind of= =20 suspect you'd need to write a ppbus driver because lpt only returns the=20 printer status when read. > Finally, is there a FBSD-sanctioned parallel port driver for use with Perl > instead of using ppi and C? It would be pretty easy to write a wrapper to use ppi in Perl (eg SWIG) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart35339965.rcyN62s719 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFgnEF5ZPcIHs/zowRAvosAJ9k0KhirwHTxTmawzEBhmsG3KtGtACghxog St3CnwFZDv8MidOfZLK9fz4= =0EXd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart35339965.rcyN62s719--
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