Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!stlvm2.vnet.ibm.com!archer From: archer@stlvm2.vnet.ibm.com ("Gary D. Archer") Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Parallel Port in OS/2 1.2 or 1.3 Message-ID: <9103151700.AA09815@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 15 Mar 91 17:00:47 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 44 Ref: Append to OS2-MISC USENET (ARCHER) at 12:29:46 on 91/03/15 OPTIONS: NOACK LOG LONG NOTEBOOK ALL Date: 15 March 91, 08:55:37 PST From: Gary D. Archer 8-284-6387 ARCHER at STLVM2 Sr. Planner DF Products- San Jose Programming Lab SSPD M74/098-A40 8-294-6387 San Jose, CA ** IBM Confidential ** To: USENET at ALMADEN Re: Parallel Port in OS/2 1.2 or 1.3 Ref: Your append to OS2-MISC USENET (ARCHER) at 12:29:46 on 91/03/15 Your parallel port needs to support IRQ7. Some clone ports are shipped with the IRQ disabled. OS/2 needs the interrupt to allow the SPOOLER to work. I had this problem with my serial/parallial/IDE combo card, in that I'd get LPT1 failures until I enabled the IRQ. Gary ---------------------------- Append follows ----------------------------- Subject: Re: Parallel Port in OS/2 1.2 or 1.3 From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) Message-ID: <1991Mar15.074142.17733@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Date: 15 Mar 91 07:41:42 GMT References: <1334@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> In article <1334@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> dbl@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (David Lawson,,2933607,5999662) writes: >My parallel port WILL NOT work under OS/2 (any verison I have tried) >I installed the correct printer driver and DOS/BIOS like the port fine. >Also, the port is on one of these all-encompassing-cards, i.e., >2 serial, game, clock, and parallel. The serial ports work fine, >so does the clock, but not the LPT1:. I am considering getting a parallel >port on a card and trying that, any suggestions??? Thanks in advance. I have noticed that some Hercules card clones (MDA cards) are incompatible with OS/2, but not all. Have you tried only printing through PM applications until now or have you also tried something like "COPY LPT1" ? Only if this doesn't work, your port is incompatible to OS/2. Kai Uwe Rommel