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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.DE!not-for-mail From: Gunther Schadow <gunther@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: PLIP hardware problems Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 17:56:56 +0100 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Lines: 37 Message-ID: <329F15D8.41C67EA6@gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gusw.dialup.fu-berlin.de (160.45.216.109) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Access: 16 17 19 267 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Hello all PC-UNIX friends! I have problems linking my notebook to my workstation via PLIP. I soldered a Laplink cable and failed to get PLIP up and running with my i586/133/PCI workstation (NEPUMUK), which has big SCSI drives, a DAT tape and the modem line to the world. As a last resort I plugged the notebook into my older i486DX/33/ISA box (PLOCUS) instead and PLIP works just fine! The two PCs are linked by an ethernet and thus there is -- though cumbersome -- way to reach NEPUMUK from the notebook. I know now that - my cable is soldered right - the parallel port needs no special hardware adjustment, since PLOCUS has just an old ISA multi I/O card. I am completely stuck bringing the parallel port on the PCI board to receive data. Using some kernel debug settings, I get messages logged, whenever the port receives data. On NEPUMUK these messages don't appear, so I suspect that the port hardware is not correctly adjusted. The PCI board is a Gigabit GA-588ATS. In the chipset setup I can configure the parallel port mode to "SPP", "EPP", "ECP", and "ECP+EPP". Yet, neither of the works. I've also fondled with the IRQ mappings between PCI and ISA bus, but this seems not to make any difference. Has anybody any idea, I need your help! thank you, regards -- Gunther Schadow-----------Windsteiner Weg 54a, Berlin 14165, FR. Germany Dept. of Anaesthesia, Benjamin Franklin Univerity Hospital, Berlin. gusw@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~gusw ----------------------------------#include <usual/disclaimer>-----------