Quoting Engelen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I had this cool idea the other night: wouldn't it be (fairly easily) > possible to create a little component with som LED's which shows the status > of some serial port, so you could write some programs to do the following:
I cobbled together a kernel module to do this on the parallel port, and a python module to drive the driver, plus a python program to test it. A kid next door used it with a Tk gui that he wrote to drive model trains at a church fete. You've reminded me that I'll have to revise it for the 2.2 kernel by next summer unless he learns quickly. The parallel port pinout is in the pc-hardware faq on usenet. > I don't want to kill my serial ports :) They're the robust ones. Take good care of your parallel port. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
