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Re: Adding parallel ports
Iftach Hyams wrote:
> Does any one have an experience with those ISA-cards with parallel ports
> (some of them have serial port also).
> Do I need a "driver" ? What device will it be mapped for ? Eventually I
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Actially not
For parallel ports, all you need to do is configure the port as
lp1 or lp2:
LP PORT IRQ
1 378 7
2 278 5
Please note that there is a configuration for port 3BC (which should give
you lp0).
With serial port, youll need to use a configuration tool named setserial.
Refer to the
manual page (man setserial) for details.
In ports that have 2-4 serial ports are usually called non-intelligent ports
becuase
they don't require any driver. Instead the take actual resources (one port
range for each
port, sometimes all ports share the same IRQ - and sometimes not).
>
> want
> to connect a ZIP drive, scanner and so on to one of those.
ZIP drive configuration is just the same.
>
>
> Thank you
You're wellcome