From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 15 13:47:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (mail.palmerharvey.co.uk [62.172.109.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C11155FA for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:47:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) Received: from ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk (unverified) by mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 21:45:56 +0100 Received: from voodoo.pandhm.co.uk (VOODOO [10.100.35.12]) by ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id 3WRWC5C5; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 21:46:44 +0100 Received: from dom by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 114sOb-0000U7-00; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 21:46:21 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 21:46:21 +0100 To: Alex Knowles Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing Message-Id: <19990715214620.C1728@palmerharvey.co.uk> References: <000a01becea6$b2fe5d20$a89d24d4@profero.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <000a01becea6$b2fe5d20$a89d24d4@profero.com>; from Alex Knowles on Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:44:57AM +0100 From: Dominic Mitchell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:44:57AM +0100, Alex Knowles wrote: > I hope this is the right place to post, sorry if it's not. > I'm really sorry to post what is probably a repeat question, but I've just > upgraded to freebsd 3.2-release and I'm having real problems getting the > kernel to see my printer ports: > > here is my kernel > device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7 > controller ppbus0 > device lpt0 at ppbus? > device plip0 at ppbus? > device ppi0 at ppbus? > > and here is my dmesg output: > ppc0 at 0x3bc irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa > ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > ppi0: on ppbus 0 > plip0: on ppbus 0 > > whenever I try to access lpt0 it says that the device is not configured. > If I try and use the old configuration of lpt and I try and build the kernel > I get a whole load of make errors. Quick guess: Remove your device entries in /dev/ and recreate them with /dev/MAKEDEV. There may well be a different major/minor number for the new device. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator In Mountain View did Larry Wall Sedately launch a quiet plea: That DOS, the ancient system, shall On boxes pleasureless to all Run Perl though lack they C. -- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message