[lug] kernel 2.2.17, no parallel port!?

[Archer Sully]

Calvin Dodge wrote:
> 
> Archer Sully wrote:
> >
> > Hi y'all,
> >
> > I've got a problem on my little HP Pavilion (300Mhz K6-2 + SiS) that's
> > really vexing me.
> >
> > Background:  I'm trying to set things up so that my wife can print
> > from her Mac to my Lexmark Optra E312.  Problem:  netatalk was giving
> > me incredible grief on kernel 2.2.16-3 (ethernet card is some sort
> > of tulip, I forget which).  After bashing my head against that off and
> 
> The "sort of tulip" may be critical.  What's the output from "/sbin/lspci -tv"?
> 

-[00]-+-00.0  Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597 [SiS5582]
      +-01.0  Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
      +-01.1  Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
      +-01.2  Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001
      +-0b.0  Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX
      +-0c.0  Rockwell International: Unknown device 4320
      +-0c.1  Rockwell International: Unknown device 4321
      +-0c.2  Rockwell International: Unknown device 4322
      \-13.0  Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597/5598 VGA

Under 2.2.17 the parallel port doesn't show up under /proc/ioports
at all.  

I'm beginning to think that there is something more sinister going 
on with this box.  

> > On the other front, 2.2.16-3 absolutely refuses to see appletalk
> > packets on the wire, although 2.2.17 does.  I have confirmed that
> 
> Well, the issue probably isn't 2.2.16-3 vs. Appletalk, since a Linux box I set
> up for my brother (with a Windows machine AND a Mac) is talking just fine to
> the Mac, and it has that very kernel (from Red Hat) installed.
> 

Mine's from KRUD, but essentially the same thing.  I am talking to Windows
just fine with this particular box, so some things work.  How did you install
netatalk?  Or did you use CAP?

-- archer