From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Coppens Subject: Hardware (parallel) port problem? Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:30:44 -0300 Message-ID: <20060130103044.db923fea.john@jcoppens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org H all At a friend's, I installed DOSEMU to run an old DOS accounting program they use once is a while. For several months all was well (it seemed), but suddenly I got calls about not being able to print. There is an extra complication - the program needs a dongle, so I had to enable access to the PP to get the program started at all. * LPR Logs show "device busy ur unavailable" or some such message... * Printing starts only after closing the DOSEMU program, Both diagnostics seem to indicate that the DOSEMU doesn't release its hold on the LP port (maybe after accessing the dongle?). Months ago, I installed kernel 2.6.14, and I just now read that there could be confusion on the naming of the parallel ports? It's weird that is worked till now, but could that be the problem? I'm going to check that now - But I'd appreciate suggestions - the machine is at 35 km from here, no easy experimenting here! Thanks in advance... John Note: Please forgive me posting this on the support forum for DOSEMU too...