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This kernel module will register the /dev/ppin (10, 151) device which controls up to eight pins through the first parallel port.

Documentation

Please note that documentation is mostly lacking at the moment. Use the source, luke!

Controlling the pins is as easy as echo num state >/dev/ppin, where num is 0 to 7 and state is one of on or off. For example echo 3 on >/dev/ppin switches the 3rd pin on.

You can read the status of the pins with cat /dev/ppin.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Authors

Alexander Barton, alex@barton.de (for Linux 2.6 and newer, 2009)

This work is heavily(!) based on the devled driver written by Konstantinos Natsakis, cyfex@mail.com, for Linux 2.2/2.4.

Source Code

At the moment, there are no distribution archives available, the complete source code is stored in a GIT repository. You can access the repository using the web frontend or use the following command to clone it:
git clone git://arthur.barton.de/ppin.git

Hardware

Beispiel-Schaltplan