From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 27 2:30:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7ECC37B41C for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 02:30:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (dialup-2.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.131]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g3R9Xcw52404 for ; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 19:03:39 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Message-Id: <200204270933.g3R9Xcw52404@tierzero.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: LPT Handbook/LINT/dmesg conflicts Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:46:31 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG About time I had another attempt to get printing going on my machine, so .. RTFM ... BUT ... HANDBOOK Edit your kernel configuration file. Look for or add an lpt0 entry. If you want interrupt-driven mode, add the irq specifier: device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq N vector lptintr LINT device lpt (no other mention of lpt or lptN) GENERIC device lpt # Printer (ditto) DMESG (dmesg | grep lpt0 ) lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port They can't ALL be right - or can they? lptest > /dev/lpt0 worked just fine, so it looks to me like I should ignore the Handbook - is it out of date? -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message