From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 05:32:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03783 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:34:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03586 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:31:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA06262; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:49:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:49:02 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Frank Griffith cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Printer Port LPT2 In-Reply-To: <01BD22B2.07BEA6A0@dal12-17.ppp.iadfw.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Frank Griffith wrote: > As a new user of UNIX and FreeBSD I am still probing my way > thru the fundamentals. > > When my system boots FreeBSD 2.2.5, the following is > displayed in the hardware setups: > > lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa > lpt0: Interrupt driven port > lpt1 at 0x378-0x37f on isa > lpt1: not probed due to I/O address conflict with lpt0 at 0x378 > > I assume that lpt0 is in actuality lpt1 and lpt1 is actually lpt2: Yes, the system ports are 0-based versus 1-based for DOS. > > And this conflict/error is harmless. Correct? Yes, but you can disable lpt1 if you type `-c' at the boot: prompt. that will at least quiet the message. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major