problem with parallel port and comm.jar api

[Klaasjan Brand]

On 3/29/06, Liloulinx <alilou_linux at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody
> I try to write to the parallel port of a linux machine in java using the
> comm.jar api. On RedHat distribution (kernel 2.4), it works correctly. But
> not
> on others linux distributions (like Ubuntu, Mandrake and Fedora Core)
> whose are based on 2.6
> kernel. Do this problem is related to the kernel version and does somebody
> can
> help me to fix it?


The JavaComm library used the comm.jar and a native library (something
ending with .so, depending on the JavaComm pacakge you use). If you copied
the comm.jar from the old RedHat system to a newer system you should also
copy the .so file and make sure it's in the system library path.

Klaasjan
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