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On Sunday 17 October 2004 08:18, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >On Sat, 2004-10-16 04:23:43 -0400, Gene Heskett > <gene.heskett@verizon.net> > >wrote in message <200410160423.43597.gene.heskett@verizon.net>: >> Greetings; >> >> This may be OT, but can anyone advise me on a pci card thats >> basicly an 8255 with a 34 pin or greater port on the card or back >> panel to bring out all 3 ports, and a suitable linux compatible >> driver for it? > >For input? Output? Both? In the output-only with low "bandwith" > being okay, just think about attaching a number of > serial-in-parallel-out shift registers to your parport. I use > something like that for switching on and off computers... > >MfG, JBG Both, to drive a small homemade cnc milling machine. I found a pci card with 3 each 8255's on it for about 75$, but I don't think it meets the pci std, I don't think there's a bios on it. We'll see when it gets here. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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