[NTLUG:Discuss] Parallel Port Update

[Gilbert Morrow]

Just looking  it looks like a printer port seeing issue in the BIOS.
On Sep 20, 2015 12:51 PM, "Stephen Davidson" <gorky at freenet.carleton.ca>
wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> Attached printer Parallel to USB Adapter (took 2 minutes).  Attached
> Adapter to a MS 7 machine (took 30 seconds).  MS Plug & Play kicked in,
> took 10 minutes to find driver.  Added Printer (MS to 30 minutes to
> download drivers, and another 10m to install).
> Total time: approx 45 minutes.
>
> Printer now works and is shared.
>
> So far on Linux, 5 days spent researching and experimenting, and no
> closer then when I started;
>
> steve at walter ~ $ uname -a
> Linux walter 3.16.0-38-generic #52~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 8 09:44:48
> UTC 2015 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux
>
> ===
> Sep 19 10:04:25 walter kernel: [   15.124109] lp: driver loaded but no
> devices found
> Sep 19 10:04:25 walter kernel: [   15.183240] ppdev: user-space parallel
> port driver
> Sep 19 10:04:25 walter kernel: [   15.249227] parport_pc 00:08: reported
> by Plug and Play ACPI
> Sep 19 10:04:25 walter kernel: [   15.249308] parport0: PC-style at
> 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
> Sep 19 10:04:25 walter kernel: [   15.344403] lp0: using parport0
> (interrupt-driven).
>
> ===
> Sep 19 10:41:19 walter kernel: [ 2233.044022] parport0: FIFO is stuck
> Sep 19 10:41:19 walter kernel: [ 2233.092023] parport0: BUSY timeout (1)
> in compat_write_block_pio
> Sep 19 10:41:29 walter kernel: [ 2243.092029] DMA write timed out
>
> Any suggestions on how to get this working on Linux?
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
>
>
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