From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 02:13:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B30016A403 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 02:13:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mvnetn@verizon.net) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2067743D53 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 02:13:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mvnetn@verizon.net) Received: from [192.168.0.100] ([72.72.237.2]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J6H00G5BKTVBU85@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:13:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:13:21 -0400 From: mvnetn To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <452075C1.6090005@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20061001 Cc: Subject: Re:FreeBSD Handbook 27.9.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:13:46 -0000 27.9.2 Setting Up PLIP I have a laptop and a desktop. I have installed FreeBSD 6.1- RELEASE #0 on both using the same CDs. The laptop gererates (in response to grep lp etc) lpt0: on ppbus0 but the desktop generates ulpt0: etc. I have tried everything I can think of to get the desktop to generate lpt0; etc. Also. ifconfig plil0 generates plip0: etc on the laptop but the desktop tells me that plip0 does not exist. HELP!