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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!noc.near.net!ray.com!news.ray.com!rayssd!galaxia!dave From: dave@galaxia.network23.com (David H. Brierley) Subject: Problems with parallel port on FreeBSD-950210-SNAP Organization: Galaxia Computer Systems Message-ID: <D49MA6.vJ@galaxia.network23.com> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 20:58:53 GMT Lines: 30 A while back I upgraded my system to the 950112 snap and this weekend I upgraded again to the 950210 snap. Ever since the upgrade to 950112 I have not been able to get the printer on the parallel port to work. The parallel port is on a DIO-500 multi-io card and the port is configured for IRQ 7, io port 378-37a. The configuration line from my kernel file is as follows: device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr When the system boots, I get the following messages: Feb 19 15:02:37 galaxia /kernel: lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa Feb 19 15:02:37 galaxia /kernel: lpt0: Interrupt-driven port Last but not least, the entry from /dev is: crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Feb 9 20:52 /dev/lpt0 The symptom I am seeing is that I canot open the device. If I kill off lpd and just try "cat file >/dev/lpt0" I get a message that says "device busy". Am I missing something obvious here or did I perhaps have a hardware failure which was coincidental with the OS upgrade? I did not change any of the hardware when I installed the 950112-SNAP and the printer was working previously, so I don't think there are any IRQ or io port conflicts. I have a second DIO-500 board available that I can swap into the machine but I didn't want to mess with the hardware until I at least had some clue of what was happening. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer, -- David H. Brierley Work: dhb@ssd.ray.com 3B1 Hacker Extraordinaire Home: dave@galaxia.network23.com