Re: PLIP under Linux Alpha

[Markus Dickebohm <m dickebohm uni-koeln de>]

Henryk Paluch <paluch@terezka.ufa.cas.cz> writes:

> I had "pliped" Alpha/Linux on AlphaServer 800 for a few month w/o
> major problems.

This is a AlphaStation 200 4/166 and I still can't get it to work. After
searching the "alpha-osf-managers-archive", I found an answer from "Lukas
Rosenthaler <rosenth@foto.chemie.unibas.ch>" (although is is a Digital
Unix, I suppose that it could be the same problem):

   Hello, thanks to all that answered my question about bidirectional
   use of the integral parallel port of a DEC AXP 400 4/233:

   It is not yet possible to use this port as a bidirectional parallel
   port.  It may be in a future release (after Digital Unix 4.0...).

   Special thanks to Dr. Tom Blinn who could give me the definitive
   answer!!

In the meantime I solved the routing problems, but it seems that the
parallel port is not correctly adressed. After unsuccessful "ping'ing"
for half an hour, I still get

# cat /proc/interrupts
 1:   209760   keyboard
 5:        0   plip0                              

Did you use the internal parallel port?

Markus
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