Lpc2000

>>I need to go from ECP to EPP.  I am wondering if my laptop's
>>motherboard even supports EPP at all.
>>

Hi Glen,

I haven't been following the whole thread, but what options
does your BIOS give?

If you want to learn lots about the parallel port, take
a look at Craig Peacocks web site (there's lots of other
interesting h/w stuff there too):

http://www.beyondlogic.org

If you have a Linux system, or can use a Linux boot CD, you
try the Linux parallel port user-space driver (ppdev).

Tim Waugh wrote the driver, and there is a PDF document
describing it in various places around the web. The
user-space driver has a negotiation phase where you
can ask it to select the parallel port mode.

You can see if that can get you into ECP mode.

Watch-out for this though:
On the HP Omnibook 6100 the parallel port is also used for
the floppy drive. It uses a Super I/O chip that can multiplex
a parallel port or floppy drive on the DB25. The mode
pin of the chipset is driven in an 'application specific'
(i.e., HP defined) way to determine when a floppy is connected.
It turns out that the Cypress CPLD JTAG programming cable
matches that definition, so promptly crashes windows when
you plug the cable in - since it fails to find a floppy
drive attached.

Of course to figure this out, I used Linux :)

Cheers
Dave