Re: -> Parallel Port Support on SGI Indy?

[Stefan Deling <stefan.deling@web.de>]

Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Stefan Deling wrote:
>
> > Ladislav Michl wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:22:03AM +0200, Stefan Deling wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi there!
> > > > I?m new to this list. I?ve been using Linux now for several years. A 
> > > > week ago a friend gave me an Indy Workstation and I installed Debian
> > > > on it. What I now want to know is if there is support for the Parallel 
> > > > Port on the Indy? What about the ISDN chip?
> > >
> > >
> > > Vincent Stehle did some work on parport. I don't know driver current
> > > status, so you're at your own (or you can sponsor someone :))
> > > http://vincent.stehle.free.fr/sgi/parport.php3
> > >
> > > I was told there was some attempts to write ISDN driver, but it never
> > > went into kernel source. Check debian-mips and linux-mips archives.
> > >
> > > 	ladis
> >
> > hi !
> > Thanks... I downloaded his stuff and failed...
> > I wasn?t able to apply his patches against a vanilla kernel from 
> > ftp.kernel.org. Any Ideas what i might have done wrong?
>
>
> Try the mips kernel tree from http://cvs.linux-mips.org/
> IIRC it already has some indy parport support.
> I dont know if it actually works, though.
>
>
> Thiemo
Hm...
thanks... I´ll gonna test it tonight...
regards

Stefan