Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 12:15:53 -0400 From: "Jeffrey San Diego" <j.sandiego@prodigy.net> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@pimout3-int.prodigy.net;> Subject: What shall I use? lpt or nlpt? Message-ID: <000a01bfabac$fe382440$f553fd3f@penguin>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Whe I first installed FreeBSD 3.1, the kernel was using lpt0 as the parallel output port. I tried to send a test print using lptest > /dev/lpt0 and it only gave "cannot create /dev/lpt0: no such device or addresses". I checked the device and it's there. I looked inside my LINT file and the entries for the parallel port are as follows: controller ppbus0 device nlpt0 at ppbus? controller ppc0 at isa? port ? tty irq 7 I appended "vector lptintr" on the last line to my FREEBIE config file. When I recompiled and rebooted, the kernel was able to recognize my HP 722C printer. "dmesg | grep lpt" showed the lpt devices available: lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa lpt0: Interrupt driven port lpt-265486244: this driver is deprecated; use ppbus instead I saw this last line in LINT instructing to use nlpt0 instead of lpt0. There's no /dev/nlpt0. Again, nothing happened when I did this: "lptest > /dev/lpt0". In /dev, I tried to ./MAKEDEV nlpt0 but it said "no such device". Being desperate, I tried to link /dev/lpt0 to /dev/nlpt0 to see if I can get something out to my printer and again, nothing happened. What's wrong? [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Futura Bk BT" size=2>Whe I first installed FreeBSD 3.1, the kernel was using lpt0 as the parallel output port. I tried to send a test print using lptest > /dev/lpt0 and it only gave "cannot create /dev/lpt0: no such device or addresses". I checked the device and it's there. I looked inside my LINT file and the entries for the parallel port are as follows:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Futura Bk BT" size=2>controller ppbus0</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Futura Bk BT" size=2>device nlpt0 at ppbus?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Futura Bk BT" size=2>controller ppc0 at isa? port ? tty irq 7</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Futura Bk BT" size=2>I appended "vector lptintr" on the last line to my FREEBIE config file. When I recompiled and rebooted, the kernel was able to recognize my HP 722C printer. "dmesg | grep lpt" showed the lpt devices available:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Futura Bk BT" size=2>lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Futura Bk BT" size=2>lpt0: Interrupt driven port</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Futura Bk BT" size=2>lpt-265486244: this driver is deprecated; use ppbus instead</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Futura Bk BT" size=2>I saw this last line in LINT instructing to use nlpt0 instead of lpt0. There's no /dev/nlpt0.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Futura Bk BT" size=2>Again, nothing happened when I did this: "lptest > /dev/lpt0". In /dev, I tried to ./MAKEDEV nlpt0 but it said "no such device". Being desperate, I tried to link /dev/lpt0 to /dev/nlpt0 to see if I can get something out to my printer and again, nothing happened. What's wrong?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>help
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