Hello Squid,
Thanks for the code.
Sorry about the belay response. I didn't have time to work on it until now.
I build the pcb board and ready to test it out. when I try you code above, echo -n -e '\xff' > /dev/lp0
nothing happen. the root@tower: command prompt return right away. So I figured that the parallel port was not enable in the BIOS.
I shut down the server and go into BIOS setup and enable LPT1 as standard LPT.
Reboot again. start the server and log on and run the echo script again.
This time the command line hang and would not return root@tower:#
I have to do a control C for it to return.
any idea why ?.
thanks