With the purpose of having two printers connected to my Linux server I bought a PCI (single port) parallel port card thinking that installation would be straightforward. Parport was already compiled into the kernel (version 2.2.17), and lp is a module. After looking at the output from 'lspci -vvx' (see below) I added 'append="parport=0x278,auto parport=0x7c00,11"' to lilo.conf and rebooted, this far everything was looking good since parport even managed to retrieve the printer info from the new card (lp1): <text during bootup> parport0: PC-style at 0x278 [SPP,PS2,EPP] parport_probe: failed parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. parport1: PC-style at 0x7c00, irq 11 [SPP,PS2] parport_probe: succeeded parport1: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1100 Now, as soon as I try to print to /dev/lp1 the box locks up hard (without any oops messages), moving the printer to lp0 and changing only the device in /etc/printcap allows me to print just fine. By looking at the windows drivers provided with the card I came to the conclusion that the onboard chip was an Oxford Semiconductor OX16PCI954 which as far as I could understand is documented in http://www.oxsemi.com/products/uarts/ox16pci954/ox16pci954ds.pdf. I've also searched the previous LKML archives for any posts about this chipset and all I could find was an older post (http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2000/Sep/0071.html) from Tim Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claiming to add support for this chipset. Looking at 2.2.18-pre25 I couldn't see that the patch had been included though and as far as I could understand (with my limited knowledge of C) the patch only added the PCI id's to the kernel. Now, what can I do to solve this problem? (If any info is missing, please just ask) Thanks in advance, David Härdeman <lspci -vvx> 00:0c.0 Communication controller: Titan Electronics Inc: Unknown device ffff Subsystem: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd: Unknown device 0000 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Region 0: I/O ports at 7400 Region 1: Memory at e4102000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Region 2: I/O ports at 7800 Region 3: Memory at e4103000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 00: d2 14 ff ff 03 00 90 02 00 00 80 07 00 00 80 00 10: 01 74 00 00 00 20 10 e4 01 78 00 00 00 30 10 e4 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 15 14 00 00 30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 00:0c.1 Parallel controller: Titan Electronics Inc: Unknown device a000 (prog-if 01 [BiDir]) Subsystem: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd: Unknown device 0000 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at 7c00 Region 1: I/O ports at 8000 Region 2: I/O ports at 8400 Region 3: Memory at e4104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 00: d2 14 00 a0 03 00 90 02 00 01 01 07 00 00 80 00 10: 01 7c 00 00 01 80 00 00 01 84 00 00 00 40 10 e4 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 15 14 00 00 30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
