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Date:      Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:25:46 -0500
From:      "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com>
To:        george+freebsd@m5p.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: open ("/dev/lpt0" ...) hangup solved
Message-ID:  <20060722172546.GA79233@megan.kiwi-computer.com>
In-Reply-To: <200607221703.k6MH3Pb4000823@m5p.com>
References:  <200607221703.k6MH3Pb4000823@m5p.com>

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On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 10:03:25AM -0700, george+freebsd@m5p.com wrote:
> 
> So the real simple fix is to prevent the plip0 interface from coming
> up.  I thought the simple fix for this was to put:
> 
> ifconfig_plip0="noauto"

This is supposed to work?  I thought the values to the ifconfig_* variables
were passed directly to ifconfig(8)..

> into my rc.conf.  But it still came up anyway.  So I put:
> 
> network_interfaces="sis0 re0 lo0"
> 
> in rc.conf, explicitly excluding plip0.  But plip0 still came up!
> What am I doing wrong now?
> 
> (When I manually "ifconfig plip0 down", the whole printing problem
> is solved.)

What's wrong with using:

ifconfig_plip0="down"

???

-- Rick C. Petty



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