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18 years ago

byteblaster not showing up in hardware

Hi, I need help with my maxII eval board. When I go to program and verify, the byteblaster does not show up. I have a pci-parallel card in my dell computer and I have added that hardware to my ...
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16 years ago

I didn't examine the driver details. You're most likely right, that it's difficult to make the ByteBlaster driver recognize the available parport low level drivers, so manual registry edit may be the most easy way.

I see, that the NetMos *.inf file also installs the windows LptPort driver automaticly. So, to automate the ByteBlaster installation, it had to identify the existing LptPorts and it's underlying low level drivers. Considering the fact, that ByteBlaster is a kind of legacy anyway, this possibly means expecting too much.