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Date:      Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:56:31 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Richard Perini <rpp@ci.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PCI add-in parallel port problem
Message-ID:  <20080329235631.GA43279@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080329230509.GA20266@mippet.ci.com.au>
References:  <20080329230509.GA20266@mippet.ci.com.au>

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On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:05:09AM +1100, Richard Perini wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get a PCI-express add-in parallel port card working with
> 7.0-STABLE, and after trying the following, I'm unable to get it to
> attach to the ppc bus.  The card has a "MosChip NM9805" chip.  Motherboard
> is an ASUS P5E64 WS. (which of course has no on-board parallel port).
> The card seems to be recognised by the puc layer.
> 
> I've added 
> 	device	puc
> to the kernel config file,  and added 
> 
> 	{   0x9710, 0x9805, 0xffff, 0,
> 	    "MosChip NM9805 Dual 1284 Printer port", 
> 	    0,
> 	    PUC_PORT_2P, 0x10, 8, 0,
> 	}, 
> 
> to sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c and with verbose booting, get the following 
> extracts from dmesg:  (full dmesg attached below)
> 
> pcib3: slot 0 INTB hardwired to IRQ 17
> pcib4: slot 1 INTA is routed to irq 17
> pcib5: slot 0 INTA is routed to irq 17
> pcib6: slot 0 INTA is routed to irq 17
> ppc0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0xdc00
> ppc0: using extended I/O port range
> puc0: <MosChip NM9805 Dual 1284 Printer port> port 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xd880-0xd887,0xd800-0xd807,0xd480-0xd487,0xd400-0xd407,0xd080-0xd08f irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci10
> pcib6: puc0 requested I/O range 0xdc00-0xdc07: in range
> pcib5: puc0 requested I/O range 0xdc00-0xdc07: in range
> pcib4: puc0 requested I/O range 0xdc00-0xdc07: in range
> pcib3: puc0 requested I/O range 0xdc00-0xdc07: in range
> puc0: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x18 type 4 at 0xd800
> puc0: [FILTER]
> ppc0: using extended I/O port range
> ppc0: using extended I/O port range
> 
> 	[ and later ]
> 
> ppc0: parallel port not found.
> ppc0: <Parallel port> failed to probe at irq 7 on isa0
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 

Take a look in /boot/device.hints
Do you have any lines in there referring to ppc0 ?
If so try commenting them out.





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Erik Trulsson
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