Emco compact 5 Pc pin out help

“In a terminal
cat /proc/ioports | grep parport
post the result”

Hi again!
I tried that yesterday and I only have a picture of the result but I attach it here. It finds both ports but I do not know if the result looks right, do, does it?

“There is an onboard printer port (header on the motherboard) that linuxcnc is using - and not the pci card!?”

There is an onboard printer port at the motherboard, or actually it is a db9 port (think it is called db9). I will have a closer look at the motherboard tomorrow!

I am so impressed of the engagement you two guys have, very grateful!!

Thanks for the video clip, it is interesting to see how it should work. I will continue tomorrow but I earlier today I called a friend that I haven’t spoken to in a long time. He does not know anything about CNC but is working as a Linux specialist, he will visit me at Friday. If we haven’t solved the problem until then I hope that he can make some kind of magic.

Yes - you have 2 printer ports - it would not be 9 pin.. There is probably a header on the motherboard.. (see picture)
photos.app.goo.gl/UHVroBCd5H4jey2x8


I did a command for my pci printer port card... You get a punch of output - you should see something like this..
sudo lspci -vnn

01:00.0 Communication controller [0780]: MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd. PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller [9710:9835] (rev 01)
Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 1P2S [1000:0012]
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 20
I/O ports at e050
I/O ports at e040
I/O ports at e030
I/O ports at e020
I/O ports at e010
I/O ports at e000
Kernel driver in use: parport_serial
Kernel modules: parport_serial
I just started going down the ports until I found the one that works..

loadrt hal_parport cfg="0xe030"

Wow - I swear I wasn't drunk with that last post