On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mellertson@gmail.com">mellertson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I am betting you had to install a driver in Windows so that it would<br>
work. You may be able to get the port addresses from Windows easier<br>
then you can from Linux...<br>
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Mikkel</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>True, the manufacturer provides a driver for Win 7 and advice to use parport for Linux ;-(</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">lspci -v lists the device below</span></div>
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02:00.0 Serial controller: Device 4348:5053 (rev 10) (prog-if 02 [16550])</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Subsystem: Device 4348:5053</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 16</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I/O ports at e010 [size=8]</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I/O ports at e000 [size=8]</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Kernel driver in use: serial</div>
<div><br></div><div>and there is no parallel port in the listing. The card has only two physical ports...one serial & one parallel.</div><div><br></div><div>Pl help with what exactly do I need to get from the windows driver or what to do to probe the ports to find out which one is serial & which one is parallel and initialize them.</div>
<div><br></div><div>With regards & thanks.</div><div>Sanjay.</div><div><br></div></span></div></div>