From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 5 12:15:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4396037B403 for ; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 12:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (dialup-1.aaa.net.au [203.14.230.66]) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g55JFKP31657; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 05:15:20 +1000 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (tenring.andymac.org [203.9.107.238]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g559tgH46634; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:55:42 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:46:34 +1100 (edt) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: "S. Roberts" Cc: Subject: Re: Parallel port problem In-Reply-To: <1023209495.315.154.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 4 Jun 2002, S. Roberts wrote: > ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range For some reason, your printer port hardware is not being found, or some other device is claiming the IO addresses that the printer port device believes it should be claiming. Have you: - checked that the printer port is enabled in your BIOS?; - checked your dmesg.boot file for any other device that might be using IO addresses that your BIOS says belongs to the printer port? - tried your changing you BIOS' option that says whether the OS is plug'n'play or not? -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@pcug.org.au | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message