[TriLUG] Parallel port PCI cards

[Jon Carnes]

I would give Dell a call or drop them a note first.  Some of their
server motherboards use standard IRQ's and Ports in a non-standard
configuration.  It makes adding on additional peripherals very
difficult.

Low-end Dell servers rank right up there with early Compaq servers in my
book of Cr*p I will never buy again.
 
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 15:48, Chris Merrill wrote:
> We have two printers (neither is USB) that both need to be
> hooked up from the same server.  It only has one built-in
> parallel port...and we couldn't find any connectors on the
> mobo that looked like they would provide the additional
> port (the manual didn't show anything either).  It's a
> Dell Poweredge 300 server.
> 
> A quick google found this:
> http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/computer_parallel-port.html
> This vendor actually provides Linux installation instructions,
> which was more than I had hoped for :)
> 
> Anyone have any experiences with these cards with Linux?
> 
> 
> 
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