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WJCE 6353 is a demodulator chip, not a tuner.


looking at another .conf file i found that cx88xx.conf was ignored (confirmed in dmesg after correcting it) because it should be wrote like this:
options cx88xx card=42
so with options before cx88xx.

Anyway dmesg now says that the card is (not ...

fan_of_LTS wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:24 am I never had a parallel to USB adapter but it might depend on having a driver available. I'd try to find one to borrow.

I did have a USB to serial adapter and I got lucky. They added the driver to the Linux kernel for that a long time ago.

okay, thanks for helping me.

fan_of_LTS wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:51 pm I think your EPP+ECP should be fine. I seem to recall using that way back when I had a parallel port Iomega zip drive in the '90's.

i'm trying all the possible settings but none looks to be doing something. Could a parallel (to printer) to usb (to pc) adapter work?

timkb4cq wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:27 am WJCE 6353 is a demodulator chip, not a tuner.

So unfortunately should be the one up left which is near the antenna input, with a cover that cannot be removed and nothing wrote to identify it.

It's been a long time since I had a working machine with a parallel port but I do recall having to set bidirectional in the BIOS.

Perhaps there is a relevant option in your BIOS that would help.


I'm trying more settings (EPP, ECP, normal), could there be one in the image i can try, which can ...

The cx88xx driver also can take a parameter for tuner type. The tuner chip is separate from the Conexant cx23883 chip. The problem is that I can't find any info for what tuner chip your card uses.
If you can look at the ICs on your card and find some identification for the tuner chip (common types ...

dolphin_oracle wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:28 am I had a mfc9700 and the scanning never worked over parallel. But I didn’t try very hard.

Doesn't use the same driver for USB and parallel as the printer? Since USB is used already by the other "newer" PC which has no parallel port I would have preferred to use it on this PC.

Hello. Using MX Linux Fluxbox 23.2 x64. The scanner of the all-in-one printer connected to the parallel port doesn't get seen from the system. Printing works correctly instead. Through usb both functions correctly.

I've installed the scanner driver deb package from the brother site and then tried ...

timkb4cq wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:11 am In that case, make that file in /etc/modprobe.d then reboot.

no success, tried more type of scans.

lspci shows this card has a Conexant CX23880 DVB chipset.
At LinuxTV.org I see only one pci Zarlink card with that chipset family.
That entry indicates this option is needed cx88xx option card=42
So I would try: sudo rmmod cx88xx
sudo modprobe cx88xx card=42 and then open Kaffeine and try ...