From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 11:21:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15690 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:21:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15672 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:21:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01465; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 11:25:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810071825.LAA01465@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mark Murray cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken PLIP code? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 20:14:16 +0200." <199810071814.UAA01975@gratis.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 11:25:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike Smith wrote: > > > # ifconfig -a > > > : > > > lp0: flags=8810 mtu 1500 > > > : > > > Oct 7 08:49:33 greenpeace /kernel: LP:ioctl(0xc0286938) > > > > That's SIOCGIFMEDIA, and the lp interface doesn't (yet) have switchable > > media support. The diagnostic is (should be) harmless, although the > > error return should perhaps be ENOTTY not EINVAL. > > > > Does the interface actually work? > > Yes, a couple of days ago the message was: Ok. That was an important fact you left out. We're still debating the switch to ppbus for 3.0; it's pending confirmation of reported PLIP problems, but it's good to know that it's working properly for you. > Oct 2 08:34:44 greenpeace /kernel: &RX^R > > ...but that came right before I could confirm/check. > > I was just checking that someone knew :-) Yup. Eventually the switchable media stuff could be used to select from various possible alternative protocols at the wire level. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message