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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2000 23:18:22 -0500
From:      John Lengeling <johnl@raccoon.com>
To:        David Clarke <djclarke@cm-solutions.co.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SUNIX PCI Parallel Card with FreeBSD 4.0
Message-ID:  <392CA98E.B77FAD00@raccoon.com>
References:  <011a01bfc5f4$8fec8dc0$0201a8c0@eskimo.cm-solutions.co.nz>

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I was told that there wasn't any support for PCI parallel cards.  And
that wasn't any active work on support PCI.  The recommendation was and
ISA card or a USB->Parallel cable.  They cost around $25.

johnl

> David Clarke wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how to get a SUNIX dual PCI parallel port card, model
> 4018A, recognised under FreeBSD 4.0.
> 
> The card documentation says it installs under linux using 'more
> /proc/pci' to find the cards IO port address, but FreeBSD does not
> have this file.
> 
> I assume I need to specify some lpt device in the Kernel config file
> and rebuild, but I do not know what to specify.
> 
> Output from dmesg:
> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1409, dev=0x7268) at 10.0 irq 9
> 
> Thanks
> Dave
> 
> David Clarke   www.cm-solutions.co.nz  www.sportsnz.co.nz
> Director - Technology
> 
> Custom Made Solutions Ltd
> PO Box 10-819, Wellington
> Tel +64-4-384-7922        Fax +64-4-384-7924


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