Parport : "can't claim device"

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Tue Aug 30 12:45:59 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:51 +0100, David Andrew wrote:
> I had a problem of my parallel port not being found when I connected
> my printer - I got round it by buying a parallel port to USB adapter. 
> There is probably a better and cheaper solution but I couldn't find
> it!

He he... wasting money extra hardware is out of the question
obviously. ;o)

At first I thought about the worse, like : the stuff I connected on the
parport must have killed said parport, I am in for a new
motherboard ! :-/
So just to be sure, I unplugged my DIY stuff, and plugged the laser
printer back onto the parport.... and it works just fine ! So the
parport is still in one piece, and the problem has to be 100% software.
It's the first time I use a program that needs the parport so maybe I am
missing something obvious.

The interesting bit, though, is that the program I am (trying to !) use
has been ported to Windows.... result : SAME PROBLEM !!!
The windows terms were, verbatim :

----
can't open device "giveio"
avrdude: failed to open parallel port "lpt1"
---

I am not too sure what to conclude from that...


--
Vince, very much annoyed at best...





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