[lug] Parallel Ports

[Calvin Dodge]

David Willcox wrote:
> 
> The trouble is my Bios sees them on bootup as 278,378 which I think
>  is OK and I'm not sure where Linux knows about your printers.
>  The second Parallel card I installed is pin configured for 278 and Irq 5.
>  My kernel is configured with Parallel printing as a module.
>  Is there a place I can tell Linux that I have the second card?

I believe you want your /etc/conf.modules (or does SuSE use modules.conf?) file
to contain the following two lines:

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,5

Calvin

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