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Date:      Wed, 07 Oct 1998 20:14:16 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Broken PLIP code? 
Message-ID:  <199810071814.UAA01975@gratis.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of " Wed, 07 Oct 1998 09:09:42 MST." <199810071609.JAA00645@dingo.cdrom.com> 
References:  <199810071609.JAA00645@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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Mike Smith wrote:
> > # ifconfig -a
> > :
> > lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> > :
> > Oct  7 08:49:33 greenpeace /kernel: LP:ioctl(0xc0286938)
> 
> That's SIOCGIFMEDIA, and the lp interface doesn't (yet) have switchable 
> media support.  The diagnostic is (should be) harmless, although the 
> error return should perhaps be ENOTTY not EINVAL.
> 
> Does the interface actually work?

Yes, a couple of days ago the message was:

Oct  2 08:34:44 greenpeace /kernel: &RX^R

...but that came right before I could confirm/check.

I was just checking that someone knew :-)

M
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