Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:02:35 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple LPT Ports: Second Posting Message-ID: <393D74FB.5F8AC988@3-cities.com> References: <SAK.2000.06.06.gbcdhocj@area51>
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Chris Wasser wrote: > > I have since continued to play with this problem trying to resolve > with no luck. I find it VERY hard to believe FreeBSD cannot > handle 3 LPT ports in one box. I really need this to work, so I'd > appriciate any responses. Everyone I know personally that has more than one printer on a computer has one of them linked using the network. That works on everything. Kent > > ----- > > I've gone through older mailing list archives, and it seems I'm not > to first one to ask this. Earlier today I tried getting a 4.0-STABLE > box to recognize 3 LPT ports, one onboard and 2 lava isa cards: > > lpt0: io 378 / irq 7 [onboard] - ECP mode > lpt1: io 278 / irq 5 [lava isa parallel card] - ECP mode > (bidirectional jumper on the card) > lpt2: io 3bc / irq 7 [lava isa parallel card] - ECP mode > (bidirectional jumper on the card) > > Now anyone from the 'ol DOS days know this combo works, and > I figured it'd work under BSD as well, and was quite surprised to > find it didn't. Here's my relevant config: > > device ppc0 at isa? irq 7 > device ppc1 at isa? irq 5 > device ppc2 at isa? irq 7 > device ppbus > device lpt > > Unfortunately, these lava cards do not allow any other irq other > then 5 and 7. Nevertheless, plain 'ol DOS seems them just fine > and uses them without a hitch (not win-dos, msdos6.22) > Recompiled, and rebooted. BSD saw lpt0 and lpt1 but refused to > see lpt2 erroring out with "cannot reserve i/o space". So I hit the > manpage for lpt(4) and ppbus(4) and ppc(4) and read up on > configuring the devices. So I tried setting them to BIOS probed > ports: > > device ppc0 at isa? port? irq 7 > device ppc1 at isa? port? irq 5 > device ppc2 at isa? port? irq 7 > > That didn't work, and reported the same error message, except > this time I lost lpt0 in the process as well. So I headed back to the > manpages and decided to try polled ports (as I have to use lpt > ports as polled devices via lptcontrol(8) otherwise they print > really, really, really slowly. Had the same problem under Linux as > well many moons ago.. Anyways...) so I tried: > > device ppc0 at isa? port IO_LPT1 irq 7 > device ppc1 at isa? port IO_LPT2 irq 5 > device ppc2 at isa? port IO_LPT3 irq 7 > > This also didn't work, and produced the same results as my first > example. All three devices were created in /dev so that wasn't the > issue. I then went back to the mailing list archives and tried an > example from 3.x releases (which to my understanding with the > nlpt device works just fine) > > device ppbus0 > device ppbus1 > device ppbus2 > device lpt0 at ppbus0 > device lpt1 at ppbus1 > device lpt2 at ppbus2 > device ppc0 at isa? port IO_LPT1 tty irq 7 > device ppc1 at isa? port IO_LPT2 tty irq 5 > device ppc2 at isa? port IO_LPT3 tty irq 7 > > This didn't work either. The lpt devices moved up one device > number, lpt0 became lpt1, etc. I simply got frustrated and decided > to give the mailing list a shot. I'm really surprised this isn't working, > but I figured I must be missing something here, so if someone can > clue me in, I'd be really grateful. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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