plip irq question

I want to install Linux on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440CDX laptop that
has busted cdrom & apparently busted PCMCIA. I say "apparently"
because my ancient perfectly working pcmcia network cards (IBM Credit
Card & a USLogic/Accton) are recognized but "ifconfig" fails.

Anyways, I have a "laplink" parallel cable. I am connecting the
laptop to a Epox board with Via chipset. I "modprobe plip", that
works but reports "not using irq". A very few pings seem to get thru,
but mostly packet loss. I don't know if inducing the parallel port to
use an irq would help, but I tried it anyway, unsuccessfully.

These commands don't work:

insmod plip irq=7
ifconfig plip [ip] irq 7

/proc/interrupts doesn't include "lp" in its device list, & neither 5
or 7 are reported as being in use. /proc/ioports reports lp using 0x378.

Should I give up on plip, or is there something else I might do?

Oh, parport is compiled into my kernel, plip is a module.

Much obliged, Bob
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:17:10 +0000 (UTC), bgeer
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I want to install Linux on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440CDX laptop that
> has busted cdrom & apparently busted PCMCIA. I say "apparently"
> because my ancient perfectly working pcmcia network cards (IBM Credit
> Card & a USLogic/Accton) are recognized but "ifconfig" fails.
>
> Anyways, I have a "laplink" parallel cable. I am connecting the
> laptop to a Epox board with Via chipset. I "modprobe plip", that
> works but reports "not using irq". A very few pings seem to get thru,
> but mostly packet loss. I don't know if inducing the parallel port to
> use an irq would help, but I tried it anyway, unsuccessfully.
>
> These commands don't work:
>
> insmod plip irq=7
> ifconfig plip [ip] irq 7
>
Look in the BIOS setup.

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Bill Marcum <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:17:10 +0000 (UTC), bgeer
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> I want to install Linux on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440CDX laptop that
>> has busted cdrom & apparently busted PCMCIA. I say "apparently"
>> because my ancient perfectly working pcmcia network cards (IBM Credit
>> Card & a USLogic/Accton) are recognized but "ifconfig" fails.
>>
>> Anyways, I have a "laplink" parallel cable. I am connecting the
>> laptop to a Epox board with Via chipset. I "modprobe plip", that
>> works but reports "not using irq". A very few pings seem to get thru,
>> but mostly packet loss. I don't know if inducing the parallel port to
>> use an irq would help, but I tried it anyway, unsuccessfully.
>>
>> These commands don't work:
>>
>> insmod plip irq=7
>> ifconfig plip [ip] irq 7
>>
>Look in the BIOS setup.

Already looked there - I'm not that newbie...:-)

Between other responses & google.groups searches, looks like plip is
buggered in some range of 2.4 kernels, [of course!] the ones I have
installed on the machines I need to use.

I finally got plip to work with Tom's rescue floppy available at
http://www.toms.net/rb/. I had the Toshiba plip'd to my old beater
laptop running kernel 2.2.13 (it has no cdrom) which was netcard'd to
my desktop for access to its cdrom. Worked.


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