From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 29 12:50:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A3716A419 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:50:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james.sarasin@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F4413C483 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:50:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james.sarasin@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so164469wxd for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:50:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=YSUq6UwYCIiRaNlL9Qbfs6EdGqg+/hEm0EE60q2OACXLNzqZkEYotq8etOj0gwUciYT9ylSZ/JOEzIrgLoExfiV4YfN3vbJRYpkx2St6Mco5IAvvZ9Zrw/cxo0i6l7WFVs9cXJcACGL6d0nGNOMovUtbRgHdp9ElaOBLojJXYbE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=FuC9niVGtn8hp3BBzi5dCLBe0f9OeL22gb33kLOKS3L6RQgKk4FE7nsGfOSSHnTiRE7RhRkgirgXXc98GV7qmJLRVRQYiu04jzem2uPxjXrbS2UcYlNi9ifNK0z6wGtAGSXHOao9qkHSFxYAzilnzITfmEsKjMVI85LTJuhaMsU= Received: by 10.90.102.20 with SMTP id z20mr2253560agb.1188390088483; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.83.3 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <747690c20708290521o4b3589d5y6098be3bf1152871@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:21:28 -0600 From: "James Sarasin" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: /dev/ppi Files aren't there! Parallel port problems. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:50:47 -0000 Hello there. I'm interesting in developing with the usermode ppi interface. How ever on a fresh install of the latest FreeBSD Iso images I don't have any ppi devices in /dev. From what I can tell it isn't using the correct settings for the parallel port. I have made sure that my parallel port is enabled in BIOS. Thanks James Sarasin ---- > My system information Toshiba TE2000 Laptop # uname -a FreeBSD .ab.hsia.telus.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 ---- > A verbous boot dump has the following in it: ppc0: parallel port not found. ppc0: parallel port not found. unknown: status reg test failed ff unknown: status reg test failed ff unknown: status reg test failed ff unknown: status reg test failed ff unknown: status reg test failed ff unknown: status reg test failed ff ppc0: parallel port not found. ppc0: failed to probe at irq 7 on isa0 ---- > When I try to load the ppi module after the systems running # kldload ppi kldload: can't load ppi: File exists ---- > On system startup it says this # grep ^ppc /var/run/dmesg.boot ppc0: parallel port not found. ----> When I call dmidecode i get the following relavent to the parallel port: Handle 0x0016, DMI type 8, 9 bytes Port Connector Information Internal Reference Designator: Internal Connector Type: None External Reference Designator: PARALLEL PORT External Connector Type: DB-25 female Port Type: Parallel Port ECP