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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:30:42 +0100 (MET)
From:      Martin Dieringer <dieringe@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help with ppc and 4.0 on thinkpad 600?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.10003011427270.5853-100000@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <200003011238.HAA31777@blackhelicopters.org>

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I now "solved" the problem by setting the parallel port to lpt2 with
the thinkpad-config-tool and get ppc0 at 0x378 working very well.

nonetheless I would rather use the usb-port if it worked...


martin




On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Michael Lucas wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> If you're using the lpt driver straight from GENERIC, it's set up for
> networking, not for printing.  Changes in documentation were committed
> just last night.
> 
> Not sure which either looks like, though, as I don't use my parallel
> port at all.  But you might check.
> 
> ==ml

> 
> > 
> > Hi
> > since I upgraded to 4.0, I can't use my parallel port any more
> > (on a Thinkpad 600). It says 
> > ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
> > 
> > the kernel config I use is
> > device          ppc0  at isa? port? irq 7
> > device          ppbus
> > device          lpt
> > 
> > on 3.4 it was usable with
> > ppc0 at 0x3bc irq7 on isa
> > Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
> > 
> > anybody knows what's wrong?
> > 
> > is the usb-printer-interface working already? I can't get anything to
> > my printer via ulpt0. 
> > 
> > thanks
> > martin
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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