Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:25:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lpt attachment problem Message-ID: <20070830152423.D1047@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070830211219.21952A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070830211219.21952A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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that's it. with 0x378, irq7, dma1 and ecp mode lpt attaches and prints just fine. strange. thank you! On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Ian Smith wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:07:54 +0200 (CEST) > Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > > > when i set in BIOS my parallel port (it's IBM thinkpad T23 if it matters) > > to standard paraller port it is detected fine > > > > ppc0: <Standard parallel printer port> port 0x3bc-0x3be irq 7 on acpi0 > > ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode > > ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 > > lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 > > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port > > > > > > when it's changed it ECP mode with dma 0, ppc attaches fine too (detects > > dma etc), ppbus attaches fine bvut lpt doesn't show up. no errors just no > > messages. > > > > any idea? > > Only that it works fine on my T23 .. > > ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 0 on acpi0 > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold > ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 > plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 > lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port > ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 > > I notice yours is at 0x3bc, LPT2 in DOS-speak; mine's at default 0x37f > > FreeBSD version? Here 6.1-RELEASE, and still with a fairly old BIOS. > > Cheers, Ian > >
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