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Date:      Wed, 04 Sep 2002 19:50:23 -0700
From:      "Evan Dower" <evantd@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   lpt0 Device Busy
Message-ID:  <F106PVbYB1a1TnUfkgn0001f2cf@hotmail.com>

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I believe I have everything set up properly yet:
# cat /dev/lpt0
cat: /dev/lpt0: Device busy
and here is some background info:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD lojak.u.washington.edu 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #2: Wed Sep  
4 18:51:46 PDT 2002     
evantd@lojak.u.washington.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/4.6-GS2P  i386
$ dmesg
Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #2: Wed Sep  4 18:51:46 PDT 2002
    evantd@lojak.u.washington.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/4.6-GS2P
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) MP 1900+ (1600.07-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x662  Stepping = 2
  
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
  AMD Features=0xc0480000<<b19>,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>

<-- SNIP -->

ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
ppbus0: <EPSON Stylus COLOR 740> PRINTER ESCPL2,BDC,D4
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port

<-- SNIP -->

Any insight? Need more info?
Thanks,
Evan Dower

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