From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 17:58:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA13889 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 17:58:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA13883 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 17:58:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA06605; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 12:24:13 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512081224.MAA06605@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: lpt0 modifications To: jivko@ijs.com Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 12:24:13 +0000 () Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512061848.KAA09181@freefall.freebsd.org> from "jivko@ijs.com" at Dec 6, 95 10:48:21 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk jivko@ijs.com stands accused of saying: > I owuld like to use the Paralel Prot of a FreeBSD running machine to > control another very simple device which is not a printer. The > interface to that device, however, is not compatible with the > interface to a printer and does not support the hardware hand-shake > protocol a normal printer would do. Is there a way I could > reconfigure the kernel respectively the /dev/lpt0 device to ignore > those errors and simply dump numbers to the parallel port? It has to > be something very simple, but I don't seem to be able to find it., This mode of operation isn't actually supported. If you're interested, I could probably send you some modifications to the lpt driver that would let you directly control the port's outputs. > Jivko Koltchev -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[