More Parallel Port Woe's -- I think?

I have an old IBM laptop hooked up to a Gecko G320 which is driving a
servo motor. The motor just spins when the system is turned on. I
am using Deskncrt as my control software. It appears that the
software is not communicating with the driver, as jogging no effect
on the motor. In fact when I unplug the parallel cable, nothing
happens. I think the parallel port is not addressed properly or not
enabled somehow. Also, I am running in DOS mode from Windows 95.
Does anyone have any tips on the set-up of this. In the deskncrt.ini
file it has 0X378 (if I recall correctly) for the parallel port
address. Should this address be changed? Should I try running
straight DOS? It's been a long time since I've worked with DOS, so
I'm probably missing some basics...

Thanks in advance....

Mike Foley