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Setting ISA Card jumpers

I have a parallel port webcam and only one parallel port that is currently occupied by my printer AND my scanner.
Got an ISA card with an additional parallel port on it
for use in one of the free slots (2 ISA and 3 pci open)
Running Win '98/Linux on Partioned drive.
How do I know how to set the Jumpers on this card? And the IRQ Settings? And the DMA channel? (Iam looking at the card now)
I Want to plug the camera into it.
More concerned with the Windows side getting solved than the linux side of it(horrors).

RoadWarrior

Try and find some identification on the board, any manufacturer or model number or FCC ID number, anything that can help, even just the names and numbers on the chips if there is nothing, but if that is all, tell me the approx positions and numbers of the jumpers as well.

If there is hardly any identification on it and you could temporarily use the camera on your other port to take a picture of it that you could put online and leave a link to here, then that would be very helpful too.

If it's an ISA card it probably doesn't have a DMA channel assignment. It probably works in the SPP and EPP modes only.

Standing by with my wetware database of I/O cards,

regards

Road Warrior

tjoiner

You'll need to set it up with the default settings for LPT2. Usually this is memory location 278, and the IRQ can be any free IRQ you have in your system. The DMA channel is not used unless you need to set your port to one of the extended types of parallel ports, like EPP or ECP. Does your camera require this? If so, just pick any DMA channel that's not being used.

To find free IRQ's and DMA channels, look in control panel, system, device manager, then properties.

Good luck

Tim

tandy

If for some reason you can't get the the second parallel
Card working you might consider a Data switch box for sharing the
1 port you have. I Have An "A , B, C, D" Data switch box. One position
for an Ink jet, One for A dot matrix, one for My Scanner and one left open
for a portable device such as a burner, Zip or interlinking another pc...
The box cost me was about $20.00..

echill

ASKER

I have posted a scan of the board at
http://freedom.wit.com/~esmith/isa/isa.html

It will take a while to load...I didn't optimize it because I wanted to provide a clear image.

I have a 400Mhz Pentium II on the motherboard, an Intel 82440BX two chip PCI set.

I have 2 16-bit ISA expansion slots but one of them is a shared ISA/PCI. I'd like to use the ISA only
slot.

Let me know what you think. This is very cool.

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