PCIe - No parport registered at "0x " . This is not Always an error.Continuing.

My "obsession" with parallel port is not a result of using it for CNC machines, oh no, it started in the PC/XT and PC/AT era when i used it for transferring files between PC's, and using floppies was considered "mild torture", had some DOS software named "fx.exe", boot from floppy, run it and choose the send/recieve PC and it moved.
Never failed, ever, and was much, much faster than floppy or serial or InfraRed.
Unfortunately, i can not find it anymore, i did have a need for it last year when i fixed all my old laptops, as one of those has a really old and thick HDD that can not be powered through USB-IDE adapters. Had to use IR...got some more gray hairs!
LinuxCNC (EMC2 back then) only reinforced that obsession.

Geesh the first thing I remeber using a parallel port for was tone generation using a R2R digital to analogue converter (well a buffer connected to 2R2 network), almost a very frequency function generator.
Then using it to power some a steppers via a H-Bridge for a silly little robot platorm. Then some 433MHz remote control, a "sledge hammer" logic analyser knocked up a breadboard, a DCC model train control station, first running under DOS, then wrote a vxd in assembly for win95 to replace the DOS TSR. Probably some other stupid stuff as well.

Never got to play with thing like zip drives, ethernet or sound with the parallel port, used to get most of my stuff 2nd hand at computer markets, this was before ebay took off. Kind of miss wondering around the markets and seeing what exotic stuff you could get.
AT one time I actually used it for connecting to a printer, had to get rid of my HP Laser Jet just last year, to be honest I found it on the side of the road and got a good 10 years of service out of it, made quite a few PCBs using the toner transfer method. That doesn't make sense nowadays when you can get 5 double sided PCB shipped down under for about $7 AUD, just a bit of a wait that's all.

Ahhh that's right I used laplink as well for transferring files. MSODS 6.22 had Intersvr & Interlnk for file transfer aswell.

Since 2008 I have been using linuxcnc, I remember running into a problem in the G85 code (it was malfunctioning). I am an expert in cnc technology and I am very used to the G-code in all the controllers that exist. I remember entering the forum and raising the problem and it was immediately solved. This experience was never repeated. I'm not complaining, I'm posing a problem! It seems that for some members (luckily not all) the linuxcnc Forum has become a place where users must have knowledge of github, programming, compilation, editing, etc. every time the solution to a problem is blocked. In order for linuxcnc to continue improving, they must accept the Forum as a place where they can find the problems to be solved, because this is where the users who are using the application are located. I'm really tired of members who impose their hierarchy of knowledge on those who don't have it.
For my part, nothing more to talk about in this thread. Thank you!!!

I ordered two more of those PCI-E Sunix boards, so more testing ...

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Another PC with another of the Sunix PCI-E cards, no warnings on startup, notice the lscpi result where it clearly states the driver in use. This is not near me, a friend i am teaching CNC got this PC and card today, and it works out of the box, well after disabling secure boot in bios as that would cause permission denied and seg faults!!!
Now we need more test systems to figure out why the driver loads on some systems and does not on some...