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From: Harald Prettner <harry@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: USB; lpt/DMA
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:01:07 +0200
Organization: Technische Universitaet Graz
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Bernard Steiner wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> my motherboard docs say that it has something called universal serial bus.
> Whatever that is. Anyway, enabling the beast on the board yields
> pci0:1:2: Intel Corporation, device=0x7020, class=0x0c, subclass=0x03 int d \
> irq ?? [no driver assigned]
> 
> What is this, is it any good and if so are there any drivers available ?
> 
> In the same vein, the specs claim that the built-in lpt port on the board
> can do DMA transfers. Unfortunately, the lpt driver does not support such a
> thing. (repeats question from above)
> 
> Comments ?
> 
> Thanks,
>         Bernard

-- 
universial serial bus is a bus which is used to connect many peripherals
to your computer, such as mouse, printer, keyboard, modem, plotter,
scanner, .......
I don't know if somebody did some work on that beast .... 8).
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