From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 18 12:18:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jasper.heartland.ab.ca (jasper.heartland.ab.ca [207.107.228.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B0915961 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:18:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca) Received: from freebsd.hagens.ab.ca (ppp6.heartland.ab.ca [207.107.228.134]) by jasper.heartland.ab.ca (8.9.0/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00796; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:10:11 -0600 (MDT) Received: from heartland.ab.ca (dkwiebe.hagens.ab.ca [10.0.1.3]) by freebsd.hagens.ab.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA06873; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:28:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca) Message-ID: <37BB07C9.1784EF06@heartland.ab.ca> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:21:45 -0600 From: Darren WIebe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Edgard Capdevielle Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Parallel ZIP Drive ! References: <000301bee9a3$1f87ff20$2b78c13f@edgard.pacbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Edgard Capdevielle wrote: > Hi there, > > I finally got my machine to work with FreeBSD and fixed-IP DSL !!! > > Can anyone explain how to configure an external ZIP drive? I checked the > website and found a document, but it assumes that I know what I am doing. I > need something like "Configuring ZIP Drives for Dummies" (i.e. very simple > steps that all newbies can follow). Below is the appropriate section from my kernel configuration file. This example presumes that the zip drive is on the first parallel port. Yours should have all of the following lines in it. If you have questions on how to rebuild your kernel you can look in the handbook. If you have any other questions feel free to contact me. controller scbus0 device da0 device sa0 device ppc0 at isa? port? net irq 7 controller ppbus0 controller vpo0 at ppbus? device nlpt0 at ppbus? device plip0 at ppbus? device ppi0 at ppbus? Darren Wiebe dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message