How to set up parallel port in Debian

How do I set up my parallel card in Debian, its not seeing it. Is there a tutorial?

Thanks
Paul

In a terminal:
sudo lspci -v
and
sudo dmesg | grep par
Post the results of those two lines here.

can't run cms term wants a passwor, login pw did''t work. How do I create admin - root pw now.

OK reinstalled Debian now my terminal works great. ran the commands and i definitely have a parallel port, Why are my machine controls greyed out?

Firstly, you don't really need to set the port up with Debian. LinuxCNC uses its own driver, so you just need to tell LinuxCNC the port address.

Actually, you often don't even have to do that, telling LinuxCNC to connect to the first parallel port that it finds (index number 0) is typically enough.

Do you see the p-port with lspci? If you do then it probably isn't at the 0x738 address (which is typically a motherboard port)

Can you show the output of "lspci -vv" and "cat /proc/ioports"

I can run the commands but don't know how to capture the output to a file

You can select the text in a terminal and right click to copy it, then paste it here.

I’m having a similar issue, I’ve run the above commands and captured the output, would you be able to help? I know this thread is pretty old.  Would it help to just paste the outputs or include as a file?

forum.linuxcnc.org/18-computer/54368-pci...-work-out-of-the-box

Thanks, I went through referenced thread, not sure I understood any of it.
I have an Asix Electronics Corporation AX99100 PCIe to Multi I/O Controller (prog-if 03 [IEEE1284]),

If there are known cards I could buy I’d rather buy a known working card.

This is for a CNC machine, so just the first step of many.

Thanks,
Ted