Got a newer computer, downloaded Linuxcnc, have to use a USB to DB25 adapter

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09 Aug 2022 09:56 - 09 Aug 2022 09:58 #249386 by JT
Instead of taking an unreadable photo of your monitor from the terminal window Edit > Select All then Edit > Copy then paste the result inside code tags.
Remove the spaces from inside the [] in the following example.
[ code ]
Lots of code
[ /code ]
Lots of code

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Last edit: 09 Aug 2022 09:58 by JT.

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09 Aug 2022 14:40 #249399 by andypugh
Did you try "sudo cat /proc/ioports" ?

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09 Aug 2022 15:39 #249402 by brian.heath
0000-0cf7 : PCI Bus 0000:00
0000-001f : dma1
0020-0021 : pic1
0040-0043 : timer0
0050-0053 : timer1
0060-0060 : keyboard
0064-0064 : keyboard
0070-0077 : rtc0
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00a1 : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
00f0-00f0 : PNP0C04:00
03c0-03df : vga+
03f8-03ff : serial
04d0-04d1 : pnp 00:04
0580-059f : 0000:00:1f.3
0580-059f : i801_smbus
0680-069f : pnp 00:00
0a00-0a2f : pnp 00:03
0a30-0a3f : pnp 00:03
0a40-0a4f : pnp 00:03
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
0d00-ffff : PCI Bus 0000:00
164e-164f : pnp 00:00
1800-18fe : pnp 00:00
1800-1803 : ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK
1804-1805 : ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK
1808-180b : ACPI PM_TMR
1820-182f : ACPI GPE0_BLK
1830-1833 : iTCO_wdt.0.auto
1830-1833 : iTCO_wdt
1850-1850 : ACPI PM2_CNT_BLK
1854-1857 : pnp 00:02
1860-187f : iTCO_wdt.0.auto
1860-187f : iTCO_wdt
1c00-1cfe : pnp 00:00
1d00-1dfe : pnp 00:00
1e00-1efe : pnp 00:00
1f00-1ffe : pnp 00:00
f000-f03f : 0000:00:02.0
f060-f07f : 0000:00:1f.2
f060-f07f : ahci
f080-f09f : 0000:00:19.0
f0a0-f0a3 : 0000:00:1f.2
f0a0-f0a3 : ahci
f0b0-f0b7 : 0000:00:1f.2
f0b0-f0b7 : ahci
f0c0-f0c3 : 0000:00:1f.2
f0c0-f0c3 : ahci
f0d0-f0d7 : 0000:00:1f.2
f0d0-f0d7 : ahci
f0e0-f0e7 : 0000:00:16.3
f0e0-f0e7 : serial
ffff-ffff : pnp 00:00
ffff-ffff : pnp 00:00
ffff-ffff : pnp 00:00

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09 Aug 2022 15:43 #249404 by andypugh
You said that this machine has an onboard parallel port?

Are you _sure_ it isn't disabled in the BIOS?

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09 Aug 2022 16:15 #249406 by brian.heath
All that's in bios is one about serial port, nothing about a parport, .was going to take a good look at board and make sure there's not a required jumper maybe...

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09 Aug 2022 16:24 #249408 by andypugh

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09 Aug 2022 17:08 #249413 by tommylight
A picture of the backside of the PC?
Is it maybe a serial DB25 port?

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09 Aug 2022 17:22 #249415 by brian.heath
I just checked, I have a duplicate computer running Windows and it doesn't see a paraport either, starting to think it's on board, but not active at all and will have to get para pci card. Nothing in bios, no obvious jumpers on board.

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18 Aug 2022 00:13 #249985 by andypugh
You could try 0x378 anyway, and ignore warnings. It might work.

LinuxCNC has its own driver that writes direct to the base address, so doesn't need any other drivers.

That said, if it doesn't show up at all I think you are probably out of luck.

I don't think that you have mentioned what the PC model is, but you could try a specific google search for that model and "how to enable parallel port" or similar.

Is it possible that the PCs have a custom BIOS due to being in a particular environment, and that a BIOS update to a generic one might help?

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