Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 08:27:54 +1200 From: "David Clarke" <djclarke@cm-solutions.co.nz> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SUNIX PCI Parallel Card with FreeBSD 4.0 Message-ID: <004601bfc687$baead520$0201a8c0@eskimo.cm-solutions.co.nz>
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-----Original Message----- >> I was told that there wasn't any support for PCI parallel cards. And >> that wasn't any active work on support PCI. The recommendation was and >> ISA card or a USB->Parallel cable. They cost around $25. > >OTOH, supporting this card would be pretty straightforward if it's really >just a "normal" printer port with a PCI bus interface. From the docs that came with the card... Parallel Chipset: SIN1888, Hardware FIFO are 32 bytes Compatible chips: ACC3203, ST-78C36 and HT6535 IEEE standard: ECP/EPP/SPP/BPP (PS-II) interface Max speed: Up to 21.4MB/sec From the linux setup info, they seem to imply that the ports on the card can be used simply by telling the driver code that the port exists at IO address 0xd400 instead of the usual 0x378, for example, and is used in a polled (no IRQ) mode. Can we specify this in the Kernel config file ?. I thought we could in an earlier version of FreeBSD, but version 4.0 does not show this in LINT. > >> > David Clarke wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > Does anyone know how to get a SUNIX dual PCI parallel port card, model >> > 4018A, recognised under FreeBSD 4.0. >> > >> > The card documentation says it installs under linux using 'more >> > /proc/pci' to find the cards IO port address, but FreeBSD does not >> > have this file. >> > >> > I assume I need to specify some lpt device in the Kernel config file >> > and rebuild, but I do not know what to specify. >> > >> > Output from dmesg: >> > pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1409, dev=0x7268) at 10.0 irq 9 >> > >> > Thanks >> > Dave >> > >> > David Clarke www.cm-solutions.co.nz www.sportsnz.co.nz >> > Director - Technology >> > >> > Custom Made Solutions Ltd >> > PO Box 10-819, Wellington >> > Tel +64-4-384-7922 Fax +64-4-384-7924 >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message >> > >-- >\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith >\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org >\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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