Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 20:09:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: "S. Roberts" <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd_mail@myrealbox.com, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: parallel port problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10206092004460.11318-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <1023634586.318.8.camel@Demon.Strobe.org>
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On 9 Jun 2002, S. Roberts wrote: > Hi Greg, > I followed the suggestions with respect to placing additions to > /boot/kernel.conf in your last e-mail and managed some progress: > ~ $ dmesg | grep ppc0 > config> ir ppc0 7 > config> dr ppc0 3 > config> po ppc0 0x3bc > ppc0 0x3bc 7 3 0 0 0 0 Yes > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7 drq 3 on isa0 > ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > ~ $ dmesg | grep lpt > ~ $ cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > <snip> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf $ su > Password: > # grep lpt <kernel> > device lpt # Printer > device ulpt # Printer > # > > So I now can see ppc config in dmesg on boot-up. > > However, nothing is returned for lpt in dmesg as above > # grep lpt* dmesg.boot > grep: No match. > # dmesg.boot lives in /var/run, and if you ask grep for lpt*, it won't find anything (it's not using the * as a wildcard). So try grep lpt /var/run/dmesg.boot Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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