EPP adapter woes

From: Jason Flynn (auo.xvoqs@adsweb.com)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 11:53:55 EEST

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     Hi all,
       I'm having problems getting Linux to drive my EPP
    adapter properly. First of all I should say that if I
    put a MS-DROS boot floppy in and run the Flexnet EPP
    driver up then I can communicate OK from BCT, so this
    kinda proves I've got a genuine EPP port.

    However, I've had no luck with either the baycom_epp
    kernel module or the user mode driver from the Baycom
    site. My observations are:

    KERNEL DRIVER:
    To get the kernel driver to hook up with the parport
    driver I have to disconnect the EPP adapter, load the
    parport_pc module, reconnect the EPP adapter then load
    the EPP module. Unless I do this then parport_pc
    driver
    doesn't see the EPP capability of the port. Once the
    interface is up, packets never come out the h/w even
    though listen -a shows them going.

    USERMODE DRIVER:
    Even if I disconnect the EPP adapter before loading
    the parport_pc module (to get EPP mode recognised)
    the usermode driver seems to ask the parport_pc driver
    to report capabilities, which are shown in messages as
    SPP, PS2 with EPP and ECP emulation. The usermode
    driver then complains about an adapter timeout.

      Any help please!
                    Jason

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