[CentOS] What's up with the mailing list?

[John R Pierce]

On 10/16/11 6:57 AM, Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez wrote:
> Following your link I only see "Compatible with Windows
> ME/2000/XP/Vista/7" Are you sure it will work with CentOS 6? I don't use
> it for print anything, but just to switch on my own home alarm as I
> wrote here:
> http://www.securitybydefault.com/2011/04/trasteando-con-una-alarma-de-securitas.html
> Sorry, it is in spanish, that's my language :) Give it a try with some
> online translation service.

that style of programming, poking bits at a physical IO device at an 
assumed port address will not work on anything but a legacy mainboard 
LPT1 port.   any PCI or PCI-E port will be at a dynamic address which 
you'd have to find via the plug and play device registry, or groping 
your way through the output of lspci, which it appears you've been 
doing.. a USB port requires a complex sequence of commands to be sent to 
the USB controller to send data to the port.

my guess is, the newer kernels have dropped support entirely for 
ieee1284 devices.

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john r pierce                            N 37, W 122
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