SUNIX PCI parallel port cards

Hi everyone,

My father bought one of these boards (5008A) to add a parallel port to his new LinuxCNC machine.

The driver provided by SUNIX is not a parport_lowlevel driver - it's a monolithic PCI driver, which instead of using the kernel subsystems basically copies them all. To summarise - this means it doesn't work with the HAL layer.

To fix it, I hacked the parport_serial driver to work with the 5008A card. Whilst doing this I identified 3 other cards that can probably be supported with minimal effort. One of them is already in the kernel - but I suspect the parallel port bit of it is broken.

I was wondering if anyone has any of the following cards and would be willing to help me test some driver updates:

SUNIX 1999 [1FD4:1999]
Board 5069A, subsystem ID: 0x0101
Board 5079A, subsystem ID: 0x0102
Board 5099A, subsystem ID: 0x0104

Chris

Hello Chris, Did you ever get to the bottom of this problem? If you did, can you let me know how .... as I have just hit the same brick wall. Richard

yes

there were three critical parts:
1. snx driver, (I think I did source modifications as it's in my laptop src folder, but I can't find the original source archive for it... I probably have a backup somewhere, if I do I'll diff it)
2. config parport lowlevel snx (modprobe.conf type config standard)
3. out of tree modification of parport serial driver for kernel (patch is minimal)