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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:53:51 +1000 (EST)
From:      Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lpt attachment problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070831003436.4354A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
In-Reply-To: <20070830152114.A1458@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
 > > Only that it works fine on my T23 ..
 > >
 > > ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 0 on acpi0
 > > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
 > > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
 > > ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
 > > plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
 > > lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
 > > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
 > > ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
 > >
 > > I notice yours is at 0x3bc, LPT2 in DOS-speak; mine's at default 0x37f
 > >
 > > FreeBSD version?  Here 6.1-RELEASE, and still with a fairly old BIOS.
 > >
 > 6.2p7, i will try with 37f

My typo .. that's 0x378 as listed.

Re T23 BIOS .. do you / does anyone know a windows-free way of arriving
at bootable CDs for the BIOS and EC updates that only come as bootable
(probably DOS 6) diskette images or the windows binaries to make them?

Cheers, Ian




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