From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 9 04:00:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA21830 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 04:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA21811 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 04:00:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id EAA10624 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 04:00:41 -0700 Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id LAA07899; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 11:57:42 +0100 (BST) To: Joel Ward cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: lsight PLIP q In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jun 1996 03:10:20 MDT." <199606090910.DAA10171@hemi.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 11:57:42 +0100 Message-ID: <7897.834317862@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joel Ward wrote in message ID <199606090910.DAA10171@hemi.com>: > hi, here's my dilemma. I have two boxes, one with FreeBSD on it, one without > . > I want to install it on my other box thru PLIP. The docs tell me how to set > up PPPon hte server side thru a modem, but not a laplink cable. > (plus even if i kill lpd, "cat >/dev/lpt0" still tells me device busy. > is there an easy way to tell what process is using a device?) Possibly because you are running lpd and it has the device already opened? You don't need to run PPP or SLIP across a parallel line, the lp driver has it's own encapsulation protocol in the kernel, you just need to ifconfig the interface(s). Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info