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"Dante Pastrana" <dante_p9@hotmail.com> writes:

> Why does config fail when I add
> 
> "device    lpt0    at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lpintr" 
> 
> which I took from the FreeBSD handbook anyway?

That line doesn't appear in the current handbook.  You don't mention
what version of FreeBSD you're running, or what the failure messages
are.  I'll guess that the lpt-related entries in the GENERIC kernel
for whatever version you're running should give you a hint, though.