I just notice my par. port is no longer detected. A kernel built on Jan 21st fails to detect my par. port which has worked fine so far. In /var/log/messages I get the following: Jan 27 22:29:53 <kern.crit> trantor /kernel: ppc0: parallel port found at 0x3bc Jan 27 22:29:53 <kern.crit> trantor /kernel: ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range When doing a boot -v. An older kernel booted Jan 13th showed the following : Jan 13 21:08:47 <kern.crit> trantor /kernel: ppc0 at port 0x3bc-0x3c3 irq 7 on isa0 Jan 13 21:08:47 <kern.crit> trantor /kernel: isa_compat: didn't get ports for ppc Jan 13 21:08:47 <kern.crit> trantor /kernel: ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode Jan 13 21:08:47 <kern.crit> trantor /kernel: lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0 Jan 13 21:08:47 <kern.crit> trantor /kernel: lpt0: Interrupt-driven port Rebooting the older kernel brings back my port so I doubt it's a hardware problem. Any hints on tracing the reason for it not being detected ?? Paul -- Paul van der Zwan paulz @ trantor.xs4all.nl "I think I'll move to theory, everything works in theory..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message