Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!eweka.nl!hq-usenetpeers.eweka.nl!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:07:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:43:06 +0100 From: Chris Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware Subject: Re: ORINET XWT-PE2S1P PCIE serial/parallel card won't work Message-ID: <51C95C4643%no.one@nowhere.invalid> References: <51C70BC933%no.one@nowhere.invalid> Reply-To: cgm-news@gmx.co.uk X-Newsreader: Messenger v1.41d for RISC OS Organization: Organisation? Er, no... X-Editor: Zap 1.47 (08 Dec 2007) Snapshot, ZapEmail 0.28.3 (25 Mar 2005) (26) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Posting-Agent: RISC OS Newsbase 0.68a User-Agent: NewsHound/v1.52-32 Lines: 69 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-JuO7LFA0X5YAcml47mh+63MNdYC6IiufvhCVTA/Pw76QiPxQJYvrxJHaeG7gBwUk6Q+5ffJYKtL1TBH!trlJVw5iO9/DRyk+gcL2VjwCNUaDaOq26USTolTFag7l/Le2y0bkwwga89tdSllFBUNhs4xcbCIf!qCZz X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3867 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.hardware:272 In message Bobbie Sellers wrote: > On 04/20/2011 12:53 PM, Chris wrote: >> Well, that's what I wrote down while examining the card, but googling >> for information (none of it useful, all of it in Russian) suggests that >> what I should've written was ORIENT ... No, I've since checked, and it really does say "ORINET". > =09Try this > Thanks for the suggestion, but I failed to find anything helpful. > =09And look around the pages and you might find it recently > supported or not supported. Well, it seems once to have been supported, by "modprobe parport_pc ..." for the parallel port, and by recompiling the kernel for the serial ports, but neither works on a recent version of linux: parport_pc does nothing [1], while the compilation fails because of a mismatch between the supplied code and current kernel header files. > Look for the specific chips. NetMos/MOSChip 9912. It's part of a large family of chips which seems to be widely supported, if the advertisements of those selling them, or, indeed, MOSChip themselves, are to be believed. It's unhelpful that many relevant areas of MOSChip's website seem to be accessible only to corporate clients. > =09Next time check it out before you buy. But how? Finding hard facts on, say, printers is relatively easy, but simple expansion cards seem to be largely ignored by the compilers of compatibility lists. If I want to spend $100 I can buy a branded, well-documented expansion card which would undoubtedly work, but, by following that route, I'd probably end up paying more for the simplest of cards than I paid for the motherboard! Despite my attempts to buy a card which uses a "supported" chip, I've come unstuck. I'm surprised, if it ever worked, that there's no sign in linux-land of anyone who's actually using one, and has the knowledge and skills to keep the drivers up to date. [1] Actually parport_pc does something, although it's not very useful. My copy of Mandriva seems to be capable of supporting up to four parallel ports, /dev/lp0, dev/lp1 ..., and, if I try something like "cat SomeFile >/dev/lp0" (lp1, lp2, lp3), it tells me "No such device or address". After loading parport_pc, "cat SomeFile >/dev/lp0" does nothing: no error message, but no print. OTOH "cat SomeFile >/dev/lp1" sends the file to the printer, while lp2 and lp3 still produce the error message. But I still can't configure a printer on that port. Chris