From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 21 4:22:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from burra.zip.com.au (bart.zip.com.au [61.8.6.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4B510E80 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 04:22:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bart@burra.zip.com.au) Received: (from bart@localhost) by burra.zip.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) id XAA06732; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 23:23:57 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from bart) To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nlpt device References: <36CE2007.D4E45FE6@visi.com> From: Bart Lindsey Date: 21 Feb 1999 23:23:56 +1100 In-Reply-To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse"'s message of "Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:37:59 -0600" Message-ID: <874sog2bdv.fsf@rocklands.burra.zip.com.au> Lines: 50 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Thomas, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" writes: > I am trying to use the nlpt device under 3.1-STABLE (02-18) and I am > having no success. I have a totally ISA system, an old 486. lpt0 works > fine, but since I was upgrading the kernel, I though I would use the new > driver as recommended, but the device is not detected. Here is my > configuration (relavent): > > controller ppbus0 > device nlpt0 at ppbus? > I have the following: (slightly modified from LINT) controller ppc0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 controller ppbus0 at ppc0 device nlpt0 at ppbus? > I get : > > stray irq 7 > stray irq 7 > stray irq 7 > stray irq 7 > stray irq 7 > too many stray irq 7's; not logging any more There's a description of this message in the source. Check it out in file: /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/intr_machdep.c. Look for isa_strayintr. > > I used to get that when I didn't configure the lpt driver. Any idea > what is going on here? > Hopefully, setting ppc0 as per above will fix this too ??? > Tom Veldhouse > veldy@visi.com > Cheers, Bart. BTW. It came as a shock when I discovered the following in dmesg after rebooting the first time having upgraded to 3.1-stable... Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: PCL,MLC,PML nlpt0: on ppbus 0 like, wow! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message