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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 1996 00:07:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Terry Lee <terryl@ienet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lp0 not in LINT?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960713000444.829S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31E5517A.9D5@ienet.com>

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On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Terry Lee wrote:

> Why isn't device lp0 a kernel configurable device (I can't find it in 
> LINT)?  Is there any way of getting rid of it in ifconfig and netstat?

lp0 doesn't require configuration.  It's attached to the lpt? driver, and 
autoconfigs itself when the lpt driver detects an interrupt-driven port.  
If you don't like it try changing your ports to polled mode by removing 
the irq assignment.

FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #2: Fri Jun  7 20:10:34 PDT 1996
    dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/GDI
[...]
lpt1 at 0x278-0x27f on isa

gdi,ttyp2,~,17>netstat -i
Name  Mtu   Network     Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
ed0   1500  <Link>00.c0.d1.08.08.17        86497     0     5108     0    25
ed0   1500  128.223.186 128.223.186.250    86497     0     5108     0    25
lo0   16384 <Link>                            48     0       48     0     0
lo0   16384 your-net    localhost             48     0       48     0     0
sl0*  552   <Link>                             0     0        0     0     0
tun0* 1500  <Link>                             0     0        0     0     0

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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