On 01/01/2012 04:32 PM, Achim Theobald wrote:
On 01/01/2012 08:10 AM, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
My parallel port on the motherboard is broken. Have tried with an USB- Parallel adapter but without success. Just bought me a PCi serial parallel card and hoped to have instant access with my printer. No success. dmesg only finds "ppdev: user-space parallel port driver" No idea what that means. It seems that the card is recognized. Under Yast, Hardware information I found: simple communications controler, Name EF232PCI Parallel& Dual Serial.
Looking into the driver disc I am surprised to find there instructions in order to patch linux kernels. In the readme I find, "Linux driver for ITE887X serial and parport. This driver only for Linux kernel 2.4.19 or 2.4.20." They give specific instructions for Mandrake and Redhat and for other Linux they point to the Kernel Howto.
This situation is an absolute first for me. Up to now the pci cards where automatically detected. Is it really necessary to compile the kernel to get the pci card working?
Hi,
Do you know this article?
Dear Achim, Thanks for the pointers. No, I did not know these articles. Reason that it did not raise my interest was that my printers were serviced (which took its time) and the remaining 9 dot printer was never working that well with Linux. I assumed that it was a hardware problem, reason why I was looking into USB Parallel solutions. After studying the articles I know now that my onboard printerport was still functioning. Hardware is the first thought if something suddenly does not function as usual. And now it was a very buggy software :@ . -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.4 (i586) Kernel: 3.2.0-rc6-3-desktop setting up openSUSE 12.1 (i586) LXDE WM& KDE Development Platform: 4.7.4 (4.7.4) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org