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Subject: conf/16394: Users of some printers find that lpt0 malfunctions
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>Number:         16394
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       Users of some printers find that lpt0 malfunctions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 26 20:30:00 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Stephen Montgomery-Smith
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
University of Missouri
>Environment:

       Using certain kinds of printers like HP 4L
>Description:

       Many users using certain kinds of printers, like the HP 4L,
have many problems with printing postscript files.  After asking
around in news groups, the finally find out that the line in
/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC that says
device          ppc0    at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7
should be changed to
device          ppc0    at isa? port? flags 0x40 tty irq 7

>How-To-Repeat:


>Fix:
	
Add a comment inside the file /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC (and maybe a 
similar one in LINT) just before the offending line, that says:

# For certain kinds of printers (for example HP 4L), you will need
# to change the word "net" to "tty" in the following line.
device          ppc0    at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7

This simple, harmless fix will save many users much grief.

>Release-Note:
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