From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 24 21:18:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.networkiowa.com (ns1.networkiowa.com [209.234.64.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7BB37BDCA for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 21:18:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnl@raccoon.com) Received: from raccoon.com (dsl.72.145.networkiowa.com [209.234.72.145]) by ns1.networkiowa.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA21953; Wed, 24 May 2000 23:22:28 -0500 Message-ID: <392CA98E.B77FAD00@raccoon.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 23:18:22 -0500 From: John Lengeling X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Clarke Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUNIX PCI Parallel Card with FreeBSD 4.0 References: <011a01bfc5f4$8fec8dc0$0201a8c0@eskimo.cm-solutions.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: (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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message