From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 14:32:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A2A16A4D3 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:32:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wxinmail01.webexc.com (wxinmail01.webexc.com [209.43.0.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E80243D48 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:32:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from asp@webexc.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wxinmail01.webexc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D6417C5A9; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:32:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from wxinmail01.webexc.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wxinmail01.webexc.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36291-09; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:32:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from webexc.com (exacttarget-21.iquest.net [209.43.38.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by wxinmail01.webexc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 909537C5B2; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:32:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <40C71F53.9020706@webexc.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:31:47 -0500 From: Ben Timby User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donald Szatkowski References: <200406070741.51973.deltaski@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <200406070741.51973.deltaski@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV (via amavisd-new) on wxinmail01.webexc.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=-999.0 required=5.8 tests= X-Spam-Level: cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Parallel Printer Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:32:43 -0000 My first thought is to check your BIOS, and try enabling/disabling any "auto config" features associated with this port. In my experience, ppc0 *just works*. However, I did a google groups search, and I found some threads describing your problem, and providing solutions along these lines. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ppc0%3A%20cannot%20reserve%20I%2FO%20port%20range&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg Good luck! Donald Szatkowski wrote: > Thank you for considering my question. > > I am having trouble getting a direct parallel port printer to work. I have > narrowed the problem down to the initial boot process, but am unable to > resolve the problem of no printer port. The problem is that the parallel port > fails to initialize at startup. > > #uname -a > FreeBSD bsd4_10.maingear.com 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: > Tue May 25 22:47?12 GMT 2004 > root@perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > #dmesg: > Copyright (c) 1979,1980,1983,1986,1988,1989,1991,1992,1993,1994 > The Regents of the University of California, All rights reserved. > FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25 22:47:12 GMT 2004 > root@perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > CPU: Pentium/P54C (99.47-MHz 586-class CPU) > Origin= "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping = 5 > Features=0x1bf > real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) > avail memory = 125169664 (122236K bytes) > Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug > md0: Malloc disk > npx0: on motherboard > npx0: INT 16 interface > pcib0: on motherboard > pci0: on pcib0 > isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 > isa0: on isab0 > atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > pci0: at 14.0 irq 9 > dc0: port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xffbeec00-oxffbeefff > irq 10 at device 15.0 on pci0 > dc0: Ethernet address: 00:20:78:1e:be:f7 > miibus0: on dc0 > ukphy0: on miibus0 > ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > orm0: