From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 17:46:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75EC716A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:46:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out007.verizon.net (out007pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3360F43D39 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:46:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deltaski@verizon.net) Received: from linuxbox.dsl.verizon.net ([4.12.47.10]) by out007.verizon.netESMTP <20040607124158.QIYG28276.out007.verizon.net@linuxbox.dsl.verizon.net> for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 07:41:58 -0500 From: Donald Szatkowski To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 07:41:51 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200406070741.51973.deltaski@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out007.verizon.net from [4.12.47.10] at Mon, 7 Jun 2004 07:41:58 -0500 Subject: Parallel Printer Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:46:50 -0000 Thank you for considering my question. I am having trouble getting a direct parallel port printer to work. I have= =20 narrowed the problem down to the initial boot process, but am unable to=20 resolve the problem of no printer port. The problem is that the parallel po= rt=20 fails to initialize at startup. #uname -a=20 FreeBSD bsd4_10.maingear.com 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25 22:47?12 GMT 2004 root@perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386=09 #dmesg: Copyright (c) 1979,1980,1983,1986,1988,1989,1991,1992,1993,1994 The Regents of the University of California, All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25 22:47:12 GMT 2004 root@perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (99.47-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin=3D "GenuineIntel" Id =3D 0x525 Stepping =3D 5 Features=3D0x1bf real memory =3D 134217728 (131072K bytes) avail memory =3D 125169664 (122236K bytes) Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug md0: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on p= ci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: at 14.0 irq 9 dc0: port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xffbeec00-oxffbee= fff=20 irq 10 at device 15.0 on pci0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:20:78:1e:be:f7 miibus0: on dc0 ukphy0: on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto orm0: