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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:46:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
To:        Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu>
Cc:        David Berard <dbera@cybercable.tm.fr>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: parallel printer & nlpt0
Message-ID:  <14462.11179.75027.675592@onceler.kcilink.com>
In-Reply-To: <387E2960.DDC1871C@math.udel.edu>
References:  <387DAF03.DFFDCE1@cybercable.tm.fr> <14462.8198.226435.916326@onceler.kcilink.com> <387E2960.DDC1871C@math.udel.edu>

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>>>>> "PS" == Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu> writes:

PS> I had the same printing problem myself, and the reason I heard that they
PS> have the GENERIC kernel with 'net' on the ppc0 line is because it's
PS> needed for PLIP to work.  The FreeBSD people want PLIP to work during
PS> installation.  It would be nice if they could slip in an alternative
PS> kernel during the installation that didn't have 'net' compiled in.  Or if
PS> the net vs. tty could be toggled with a sysctl command, that would be
PS> nice.

A comment in GENERIC would also suffice, I think.


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