On 10/16/2011 10:39 AM, Lorenzo MartÃnez RodrÃguez wrote:
I had no trouble with panics booting new CR kernel either, but detecting my PCI-e parallel port http://www.spinics.net/lists/centos/msg119673.html. The worst is nobody has given even any clue related to it.
I have not seen a parallel port in years or a device needing a parallel port. I did not even know a PCI-e parallel card existed. Perhaps people just don't know what the problem is or can be bothered with technology from the eighties.
If you need it for a printer then why not get a usb<->parallel cable: http://www.lindy.co.uk/usb-to-parallel-printer-port-adapter-cable-15m/42882....
Maybe this is the difference
between RHEL and CentOS. If I was a RHEL licensed user, RedHat support staff at least would answer saying anything.
If everybody who does *not* know the answer to a question would answer "saying anything" as you suggested then this mailing list would generate a gazillion messages per day and become completely useless because of the gazillion "I don't know" answers.
If that parallel card is so important to you then why don't you buy a Red Hat subscription? At the end of the day you get what you pay for...
Regards, Patrick