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In article <362A0EBC.A4F6315@girassol.demon.co.uk>, Rod Tye 
<nospam@girassol.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>My parallel port has stopped working!  It used to work.  The only
>thing which has changed is that I installed a Dlink DE-220 ethernet
>card.  The problem's not the kernel, because the unpatched kernel I
>used previously doesn't work now either.  It's not a hardware problem,
>because the parallel port works okay if I boot the PC under Windows
>95.

A completely silly question: does it work properly if you remove the
ethernet card?

>My PC is a Pentium 120 running Redhat 4.1, kernel 2.0.27 with
>ne2k-pci-diff patch.  The current IRQs and addresses are:

[no sign of a parallel port]

>From the Windows settings, I expect the parallel port to appear at
>addresses 0378-037a, but it's not detected.  There's no relevant
>message in dmesg, but there never was even when it was working.

I'm currently running kernel 2.1.126-pre2, with a modular parallel port
driver.  parport0 only appears in /proc/ioports while the module is
loaded.  Are you sure that you're not in a situation where your parallel
port driver is failing to load when required?  (I'm not sure whether the
latest way of handling parport stuff was in 2.0.27.)

>Any suggestions, please?  If possible please reply to the email
>address below as well as to this group.

If I must, though I dislike people setting non-functioning From:
addresses and then asking for replies even more than I dislike people
expecting to get replies by mail in response to news...

Dan

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