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PCI Parallel Port card install -- need info
R.M. Klippstein:
I need to install a PCI Parallel card on a newer quad core M.B. that has no parallel port. It looks like I need to do it one of two different ways, or possibly both. Steven Levine posted a way which said to download compci.zip from the eCS site. Right now it looks like the beta zone is unreachable as well as the bug reporting site. So the other way was also posted by Mr. Levine and said to download Viet's pci049vkd.zip from hobbes (which I have done, but not installed as yet). Which of these methods would be best to try with eCS 2.2bii or is there some additional way of accomplishing this included in eCS?
Has anyone done this lately?
thanks klipp
Dave Yeo:
You should download http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/misc/pci104vka.zip and perhaps http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/system/pcidevs_20131028.zip, install (just unzip into a directory and run pci.exe) to find out exactly what card you have and which irq etc it is using and post it as a first step.
R.M. Klippstein:
Hi Dave, Thanks for the help. Below is the output of PCI.exe -- only the part that pertains to the Parallel Port card.
What's next?
klipp
Bus 4 (PCI), Device Number 7, Device Function 0
Vendor 4651h Unknown
Device 7073h Unknown
Command 0001h (I/O Access)
Status 0200h (Medium Timing)
Revision 10h, Header Type 00h, Bus Latency Timer 00h
Self test 00h (Self test not supported)
PCI Class Simple Communication, type Serial - 16550
Subsystem ID 70734651h Unknown (Generic ID)
Subsystem Vendor 4651h Unknown
Address 0 is an I/O Port : EC00h
Address 1 is an I/O Port : E080h
System IRQ 22, INT# A
OM PCI IRQ routing table Tests....
ROM IRQ routing table found at F000h:5590h
Table Version 1.0 - OK
Table size 384 bytes - OK
Table Checksum 05h - OK
PCI Interrupt Router: Unknown
IRQ's dedicated to PCI : None
The ROM PCI IRQ routing table appears to be OK.
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote ---PCI Class Simple Communication, type Serial - 16550
--- End quote ---
That appears to be a SERIAL (COM) port device, not a parallel port device.
R.M. Klippstein:
Hi Doug, The box it came in said "PCI 80806a Parallel Port PCI card" and had instructions for installing parallel port on both Linux and windows. Its got a parallel port socket on it, no serial port plugs! Looks like it should work. I have Linux installed on the same box and will probably check it out on Linux if I'm not successful installing on eCS. Hope the "eye work" goes smoothly, take it slow!
klipp
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