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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7205 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:49:58 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!qwerty!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: reading from parallel port Date: 19 Jan 1993 17:43:27 GMT Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1jhejv$9l3@Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net Folks, I just read through one of those terrible x86 magazines. Somebody advertized their LPT port ethernet[TM] adapter. While I believe that the idea of driving the ethernet through a slow LPT port is not really fascinating, I sort of like the idea of using the parallel port for "serious work". This would require reading from the port, though. Now, the obvious questions: How do I work out whether my hardware is up to doing that kind of thing ? What registers to set to what sort of value in order to read ? What sort of registers to set to what sort of value to drive the control lines in outgoing mode ? Any hints, anybody ? Oh, and *please* *don't* tell me to read() from /dev/lpt1. That kind of trick would, of course, prerequire (?) the questions above to be answered... Thanks, Bernard -- === ____ === EUnet Deutschland GmbH === / / / ___ ___ _/_ === Emil-Figge-Str. 80 === /---- / / / / /___/ / === D-W-4600 Dortmund 50 === /____ /___/ / / /___ / === Germany ===== ===== Vox +49 231 755 2444 ===== Connecting Europe since 1982 ===== Fax +49 231 755 2386