[NTLUG:Discuss] Parallel Port Update

[Stephen Davidson]

Same error on two separate computers, one an HP AMD-64, one an Generic
Intel-x86 (32bit).  The HP is updated to the last official BIOS release.

Anybody wants to go hands on, I can make arrangements.

Regards,
Steve

On 09/24/2015 05:15 PM, Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> 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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