From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 13 8:16:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1569514CA0; Thu, 13 May 1999 08:16:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfieber@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA07260; Thu, 13 May 1999 10:16:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:16:19 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Peter Schwenk , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GENERIC 3.2-BETA kernel and printing In-Reply-To: <373A5264.C568B85C@voicenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 May 1999, Peter Schwenk wrote: > I just wanted to let the developers know that I have trouble printing > with the 3.2-BETA kernel using the GENERIC configuration file. I print ... > device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7 > > line to > > device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 tty irq 7 This still hasn't been resolved? If not, we have taken one step forward and two steps back with respect to parallel ports. What is the rational of choosing net over tty in GENERIC? The net option has caused a lot of grief among people who want to print. If it changes to tty, what breaks (and who will that inconvenience)? -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message