Some people here are in the process of building a small robot, and have
decided to use a parallel port interface because the hardware's
easier that way. The tricky part is that now they want to make it
controllable from a Linux machine, and I think that means writing
a parallel port device driver. I've never written a device driver
and I barely know more than they do, so I wanted to ask:
- *Do* I need a device driver, or is there a `tip' like
program for the parallel port I can hack into?
- Should I start from scratch, or grab a printer driver
from somewhere? (where?)
- Any books / howtos / faqs you can recommend?
Thanks.
Richard A. Reitmeyer
(please reply to rar@cs.stanford.edu, not richard@neville)