Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:37:04 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> Cc: David Berard <dbera@cybercable.tm.fr>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: parallel printer & nlpt0 Message-ID: <387E2960.DDC1871C@math.udel.edu> References: <387DAF03.DFFDCE1@cybercable.tm.fr> <14462.8198.226435.916326@onceler.kcilink.com>
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I had the same printing problem myself, and the reason I heard that they have the GENERIC kernel with 'net' on the ppc0 line is because it's needed for PLIP to work. The FreeBSD people want PLIP to work during installation. It would be nice if they could slip in an alternative kernel during the installation that didn't have 'net' compiled in. Or if the net vs. tty could be toggled with a sysctl command, that would be nice. Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "DB" == David Berard <dbera@cybercable.tm.fr> writes: > > DB> 2. modify the ppc entry in the kernel config file, and build a new > DB> kernel > DB> --- device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7 > DB> +++ device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 tty irq 7 > > Wow... this one does the trick for me! I no longer user the > lptcontrol -p method. I was soooo close to buying a jet-direct card > to drive this printer! > > It seems to me that the GENERIC file should have this updated, as > that's the base from which I built my own config file. The LINT file > has "tty" rather than "net", so someone must have forgotten to > propagate the change. > > Has anyone filed a pr for this or should I do it? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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