Why is it that a properly functioning printer is such a moving target
in FreeBSD?
I don't mean to be argumentative, but under 3.x, the magic cookie to
make printers work (it appeared to be a flow control problem) was to
change
device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7
to
device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 tty irq 7
Now... I've upgraded to -CURRENT, and it has a much more serious
problem. The line now reads
device ppc0 at isa? port? irq 7
... so I havn't tried putting net or tty in it, but I have a printer
with a particular problem --- it will often fail to pick up a sheet of
paper. I suspect that this sets the paper out sense line of the
parallel port (?).
When this happens, the entire machine freezes until someone feeds the
printer --- the momment it starts printing again, the computer
unfreezes.
Printer-port related things probe as:
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/PS2/ECP
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
ppbus0: <HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 870C> PCL,MLC,PML
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
(I have tried putting the BIOS in different parallel port modes.)
Dave.
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