On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:44:57AM +0100, Alex Knowles wrote:
> I hope this is the right place to post, sorry if it's not.
> I'm really sorry to post what is probably a repeat question, but I've just
> upgraded to freebsd 3.2-release and I'm having real problems getting the
> kernel to see my printer ports:
>
> here is my kernel
> device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7
> controller ppbus0
> device lpt0 at ppbus?
> device plip0 at ppbus?
> device ppi0 at ppbus?
>
> and here is my dmesg output:
> ppc0 at 0x3bc irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa
> ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
> ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
>
> whenever I try to access lpt0 it says that the device is not configured.
> If I try and use the old configuration of lpt and I try and build the kernel
> I get a whole load of make errors.
Quick guess: Remove your device entries in /dev/ and recreate them with
/dev/MAKEDEV. There may well be a different major/minor number for the
new device.
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