On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Nicolas Souchu wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:13:09AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> >
> >On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there,
> >> 
> >> Currently, the ZIP+ probe is intrusive and sends char to the printer if
> >> no ZIP+ is connected.
> >> 
> >> Here is a patch that corrects the problem for my printer, but I haven't
> >> any ZIP+ :)
> >> 
> >> So, please check the ZIP+ is still detected.
> >
> >With this patch, I can *not* detect my ZIP+ (attached to a machine which
> >detects it using the existing code).
> 
> Ok :(
> 
> Does the last ppbus committed code (with IEEE1284 support) detects your
> ZIP+ at boot? Something like "IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE..." with
> its id 2 lines after? This may be another way to detect properly the ZIP+

Afraid not :-(.  The ppb_1284_negociate fails with an error of
PPB_NOT_IEEE1284.  I haven't tried using the PERIPH_1284 option which
seems to affect the negotiation - is it worth trying?

P.S. The correct spelling is 'negotiate'.  I keep wanting to do a
global-replace :-)

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Doug Rabson                             Mail:  d...@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.                  Phone: +44 181 442 9037



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