From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Feb 27 15:23:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from trex.fandom.net (CPE-203-45-124-249.nsw.bigpond.net.au [203.45.124.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 542AB37B41A; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 15:22:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.fandom.net ([127.0.0.1] helo=fandom.net) by trex.fandom.net with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16gDPS-000IEV-00; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:22:54 +1100 Received: from 192.168.167.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user andrew@fandom.net) by 192.168.167.1 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:22:54 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <2477.192.168.167.6.1014852174.squirrel@192.168.167.1> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:22:54 +1100 (EST) Subject: Parallel Port From: To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.0.6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, It appears that much (most) of the BSD community is unable to get a local printer working quickly. Though the statement sounds odd please remember that most of us use network printers, not local printers -- so it hasn't been a huge thing. The gottch-yer being that the /dev/plip in GEBERIC takes the port away from /dev/lpt. There is reasoning for /dev/plip to be in the GENERIC as it `could' be used as one of the installation media (though one might question how often they'd have two computers ready for such an opperation). However, I feel the Handbook should at least cover this issue. Second issue is /dev/ppi which I feel definatly shouldn't be in GENERIC and should be in LINT only. Could you please pass my request to the appropiate people? P.S. the parallel issue surfaced as I wanted to provide people with a 'standardised' KDE environment including CUPS -- which couldn't poll the parallel port untill the /dev/plip was removed. Thanx very much for all your time & efforts. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message