Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 16:49:20 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Morgan Davis <mdavis@cts.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing snafu in 3.1 may lead to my death Message-ID: <37071980.97CB2B36@newsguy.com> References: <NBBBLJLIKEECAFCFNAKFEEOGCCAA.mdavis@cts.com>
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Morgan Davis wrote: > > I read the 3.1 release notes about ppbus and ppc replacing the "now > deprecated lpt", and as instructed, I read the man pages aloud as an > incantation. I looked through MAKEDEV to find a device target for nlpt, but > there is none. I hunted around through kernel sources looking for major and > minor device numbers for nlpt so I could do my own mknod, etc. I tried > using ppi0 instead of lpt0 (not allowed). So it's all been a fruitless > exercise. As you can see, the level of desparation has sent me back here > where the Geniuses hang out. IIRC, the device used is still lpt0. BTW, the "now deprecated lpt" can *still* be used in -stable, instead of the new ppbus stuff. That said, changing "net" to "tty" as suggested by someone else usually produce good results. And, just in case it works, and you get ready to ask why that is not the default, a power that be once mentioned that you need it to be "net" to be able to install through the parallel port using slip. Since GENERIC is the kernel used to install the system, it has to be able to support slip by default. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "nothing better than the ability to perform cunning linguistics" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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