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  • From: Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] plip link for remote xsession?
  • Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:56:32 +0000

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:10:57AM -0500, James Miller wrote:
> Looks like I had some settings wrong on the desktop and it was actually
> pinging itself, not the laptop :(. Now, with the correct settings,
> neither machine can ping the other. Sounds like maybe the parallel port

The few old laptop that I have encountered all have parallel port
settings.

> problem Steven was alluding to. Parallel port settings for the laptop are
> pretty much non-existent, except for I/O address, as I mentioned earlier.
> The desktop, on the other hand, has several parallel port settings in its
> BIOS: I/O / IRQ; Mode (EPP, ECP, EPP+ECP and Normal); DMA channel (3 or
> 1); and EPP type (1.9 or 1.7). From what little sense I can make out of

Can anyone explain these settings?

> all this, the settings are ok: I/O / IRQ looks fine (0x378, 7); Mode is
> "normal" ("supports EPP or ECP"); DMA is 3 (default); and EPP type is 1.9
> (default). Sorry to bore you all with this, but if anything looks
> terribly wrong to anyone esle with these settings, please let me know.
> I'm still inclined to believe that one or the other of the 2 parallel
> ports (probably the laptop one) is not capable of acting as a
> communications port. A cheap 10 baseT pcmcia card may still be the
> simplest way to get some more use out of this notebook.
>
> James
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