Multiple BOB's and parallel ports, and different driver card issues

ok we will bring things together
WHAT is the Terminal output of
dmesg | grep parpo*

To see how the system are configured and if there is a problem on PC start

kborsum wrote: DELL Optiplex 7010
12/13/2014 mfg date, A20 Bios

Hmmm i do not have one of those but i will try to find the BIOS settings online for it. Most probably it will not have manual assignement of resources.

NO response at all...just moves to the next line. I've never been able to get this command to work in any form. Curious, because several folks have asked me to run it.

HI...
I'd like to get this going eventually, just on principle at this point, but I'm backing off to one parallel port card by
1. Tying the stepper driver enable to the EStop switch directly which freed up one output port for the spindle brake.
2. combining the MAX/Min limits for each axis
3. Giving up control of the air and water coolant lines.

Please let me know if you do find something, as I'll definitely give anything a try. Thanks for all the help so far!!!!

mabe you got the wrong language and typo settings UTF-8 is for use

Does
dmesg work in a terminal at all

you are not trying this all to workout on a Virtual install at a windows based PC
##joke 24
Linux is like wigwam: no Gates, no Windows and Apache inside.

Ok....
1. This is a complete install on a bare computer...not a virtual box )
2. dmesg | grep USB works for example....and brings up every line with USB in it. USB* brings up everything.
3. dmesg | grep gpio brings up one error line:
lpc ich: resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
4. parp, parpor, parport brings up nothing.
5. lspci -v brings up info on the parallel port installs...which is where I got the base address's.

I'll try anything else you want, but please remember I'm not a linux guru ;-(