From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 13 11:46:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BC914FF1 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:46:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: from onceler.kcilink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E022E89D; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:46:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kcilink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA00871; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:46:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera@kci.kcilink.com) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14462.11179.75027.675592@onceler.kcilink.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:46:51 -0500 (EST) To: Peter Schwenk Cc: David Berard , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: parallel printer & nlpt0 In-Reply-To: <387E2960.DDC1871C@math.udel.edu> References: <387DAF03.DFFDCE1@cybercable.tm.fr> <14462.8198.226435.916326@onceler.kcilink.com> <387E2960.DDC1871C@math.udel.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "PS" == Peter Schwenk writes: PS> I had the same printing problem myself, and the reason I heard that they PS> have the GENERIC kernel with 'net' on the ppc0 line is because it's PS> needed for PLIP to work. The FreeBSD people want PLIP to work during PS> installation. It would be nice if they could slip in an alternative PS> kernel during the installation that didn't have 'net' compiled in. Or if PS> the net vs. tty could be toggled with a sysctl command, that would be PS> nice. A comment in GENERIC would also suffice, I think. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message