Dear Sir: I keep getting this error message when I power up my Debian 8.x Desktop, after putting in the SYBA PCI Parallel port Card. Information from dmesg and lspci -v & lspci -vv is included. lspci -v 04:09.0 Communication controller: MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd. PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Device 0010 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17 I/O ports at 9c00 [size=8] I/O ports at 9800 [size=8] I/O ports at 9400 [size=8] I/O ports at 9000 [size=8] I/O ports at 8c00 [size=8] I/O ports at 8800 [size=16] lspci -vv 04:09.0 Communication controller: MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd. PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Device 0010 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: I/O ports at 9c00 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at 9800 [size=8] Region 2: I/O ports at 9400 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at 9000 [size=8] Region 4: I/O ports at 8c00 [size=8] Region 5: I/O ports at 8800 [size=16] dmesg [ 3.777671] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem [ 3.822386] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 4.432790] random: nonblocking pool is initialized [ 4.899641] systemd[1]: systemd 215 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ -SECCOMP -APPARMOR) [ 4.899809] systemd[1]: Detected architecture 'x86'. [ 5.103348] systemd[1]: Inserted module 'autofs4' [ 5.122455] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <Debian8-386>. [ 5.122519] systemd[1]: Initializing machine ID from random generator. [ 5.122599] systemd[1]: Installed transient /etc/machine-id file. [ 6.365208] systemd[1]: Starting Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch. [ 6.365293] systemd[1]: Started Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch. [ 6.365309] systemd[1]: Starting Remote File Systems (Pre). [ 6.365339] systemd[1]: Reached target Remote File Systems (Pre). [ 6.365371] systemd[1]: Starting Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point. [ 6.365483] systemd[1]: Set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point. [ 6.365503] systemd[1]: Starting Encrypted Volumes. [ 6.365515] systemd[1]: Reached target Encrypted Volumes. [ 6.365527] systemd[1]: Expecting device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-ed838c79\x2d4029\x2d4e58\x2d93c7\x2d05d933679838.device... [ 6.365540] systemd[1]: Starting Root Slice. [ 6.365570] systemd[1]: Created slice Root Slice. [ 6.365582] systemd[1]: Starting User and Session Slice. [ 6.365626] systemd[1]: Created slice User and Session Slice. [ 6.365640] systemd[1]: Starting Delayed Shutdown Socket. [ 6.365676] systemd[1]: Listening on Delayed Shutdown Socket. [ 6.365689] systemd[1]: Starting /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe. [ 6.365725] systemd[1]: Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe. [ 6.365738] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Socket (/dev/log). [ 6.365772] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket (/dev/log). [ 6.365790] systemd[1]: Starting udev Control Socket. [ 6.365816] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Control Socket. [ 6.365830] systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Socket. [ 6.365855] systemd[1]: Listening on udev Kernel Socket. [ 6.365872] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Socket. [ 6.365911] systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket. [ 6.365937] systemd[1]: Starting System Slice. [ 6.365981] systemd[1]: Created slice System Slice. [ 6.366001] systemd[1]: Started File System Check on Root Device. [ 6.366016] systemd[1]: Mounted VMware vmblock fuse mount. [ 6.366027] systemd[1]: Starting system-getty.slice. [ 6.366086] systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice. [ 6.366113] systemd[1]: Starting Increase datagram queue length... [ 6.366717] systemd[1]: Mounting POSIX Message Queue File System... [ 6.367400] systemd[1]: Starting udev Coldplug all Devices... [ 6.368366] systemd[1]: Starting Create list of required static device nodes for the current kernel... [ 6.369143] systemd[1]: Mounting Debug File System... [ 6.404406] systemd[1]: Started Set Up Additional Binary Formats. [ 6.404485] systemd[1]: Mounting Huge Pages File System... [ 6.468548] systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules... [ 6.469286] systemd[1]: Starting Slices. [ 6.469308] systemd[1]: Reached target Slices. [ 6.953986] systemd[1]: Started Increase datagram queue length. [ 6.954259] systemd[1]: Starting Syslog Socket. [ 6.954311] systemd[1]: Listening on Syslog Socket. [ 6.954331] systemd[1]: Starting Journal Service... [ 6.955028] systemd[1]: Started Journal Service. [ 7.696746] lp: driver loaded but no devices found [ 7.735080] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver [ 7.807021] fuse init (API version 7.23) [ 7.928618] systemd-udevd[175]: starting version 215 [ 8.070360] Guest personality initialized and is inactive [ 8.070445] VMCI host device registered (name=vmci, major=10, minor=59) [ 8.070448] Initialized host personality [ 9.561909] nv_tco: NV TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v0.01 [ 9.562044] nv_tco: Watchdog reboot detected [ 9.562119] nv_tco: initialized (0x1440). heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0) [ 9.591382] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 [ 9.965178] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] enabled at IRQ 17 [ 9.965217] parport0: PC-style at 0x9400, irq 17 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] [ 9.982902] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input5 [ 10.060332] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). [ 10.060342] parport_serial 0000:04:09.0: 0000:04:09.0: unknown NetMos/Mostech device Please send the output of lspci -vv, this message (0x9710,0x9835,0x1000,0x0010), the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board to <linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. [ 10.752663] coretemp coretemp.0: Using relative temperature scale! [ 10.752682] coretemp coretemp.0: Using relative temperature scale! [ 10.999876] Adding 2562360k swap on /dev/sda4. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2562360k FS [ 11.002005] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCI] enabled at IRQ 22 [ 11.002025] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:10.1: Disabling MSI [ 11.489171] usblp 2-6:1.0: usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04F9 pid 0x0033 [ 11.489220] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp [ 11.536369] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro #modprobe parport_pc io=0x378,0x9C00,irq=7,17 #ls /dev/lp0 #ls /dev/parport0 If you need more information send me an email. SYBA NM9805CV -1P card. SD-PCI-1P 93049000915 Single Port, SPP/EPP/ECP Mode - High Speed. Larry Kraemer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html