From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 3 19:45:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from IMGate1.cshore.com (imgate1.cshore.com [63.237.136.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837F737B405 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 19:45:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sephiroth.starbreaker.net (dialup-uu-dynamic199.cshore.com [63.112.158.199]) by IMGate1.cshore.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A0C223EC4 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 23:08:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 22:51:57 -0500 From: Matthew Graybosch To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question: Adding a Parallel port. Message-Id: <20011103225157.40bbb367.matthew@starbreaker.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 A short while ago I acquired a refurbished Toshiba Tecra 550CDT laptop. While the modem and Ethernet ports don't work under Linux, the parallel and serial ports are functional. I would like to network the laptop and my desktop box using a LapLink cable. However, my main box has only one parallel port, and it would be dreadfully inconvenient to have to disconnect the printer every time I need to link my laptop to my desktop. I've seen PCI boards that add a second parallel port to a machine, but AFAIK they're Windows-only hardware. Has anybody been able to add a second parallel port to their FreeBSD box? If so, what hardware did you use (brand and model number will be much appreciated.) and how did you get FreeBSD to talk to the second parallel port? Thanks in advance. -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net "Sartre was mistaken: Hell is not other people. Hell is maintaining other people's code." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message