Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:10:06 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> To: Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca>, Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: parallel port *slow* (and plip probs.) Message-ID: <042E9B710BB3EA9CFBC625DE@palle.girgensohn.se> In-Reply-To: <20040716003328.GB12833@afields.ca> References: <2A1A414BD992B32464CA6FF3@palle.girgensohn.se> <1089914418.54518.7.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> <EF9A84A7DA4682C9497C1B71@palle.girgensohn.se> <1089930990.18519.25.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> <20040716003328.GB12833@afields.ca>
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--On torsdag, juli 15, 2004 20.33.28 -0400 Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:36:30PM +0100, Antony T Curtis wrote: >> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 22:07, Palle Girgensohn wrote: >> > Only, the flags don't work, nothing seems to happen? > > Did you set to ECP mode in your BIOS? ECP+EPP didn't try ECP only together with 0x8 flag. >> > $ kenv | grep ppc >> > hint.ppc.0.at="isa" >> > hint.ppc.0.flags="0xc" >> > hint.ppc.0.irq="7" >> > $ dmesg | grep ppc >> > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 >> > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode >> > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold >> > ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 >> >> I must admit - I have only had it work properly when the flags was >> compiled in the kernel config: >> >> device ppc0 at isa? flags 0x08 irq 7 drq 3 > > I've had ECP working in 5.1 & 5.2 using device.hints as I've been > misusing a machine as PLIP router to provide old laptop w/ network > since PCMCIA interface isn't working w/ installed kernel. > > dmesg: > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x8 on isa0 > ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP-only) in ECP mode > ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 > plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 > lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port > ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 > > device.hints: > hint.ppc.0.at="isa" > hint.ppc.0.irq="7" > hint.ppc.0.flags="0x8" > hint.ed.0.at="isa" > >> <snip> >> >> -- >> Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com> > > -- > Allan Fields, AFRSL - http://afields.ca > 2D4F 6806 D307 0889 6125 C31D F745 0D72 39B4 5541 /Palle
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