I have 3 ppc interfaces with connected printers. The ppc are probed fine but I get only an lpt for the first.
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Apr 4 18:03:18 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/d7/builder/FreeBSD-2002-03-23/src/sys/i386/compile/CICELY13 Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc034f000. Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 132873674 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (132.87-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping = 12 Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8> real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) avail memory = 29233152 (28548K bytes) Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> at pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> port 0x6000-0x60ff mem 0xe4001000-0xe4001fff irq 9 at device 10.0 on pci0 aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs de0: <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> port 0x6100-0x617f mem 0xe4000000-0xe400007f irq 12 at device 11.0 on pci0 de0: SMC 9332BDT 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0 de0: address 00:00:c0:1e:03:f2 pci0: <display, VGA> at device 12.0 (no driver attached) orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc8000-0xcc7ff,0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0 fdc0: <enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x3bc-0x3c3 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: <Canon BJC-4550> PRINTER BJ,LQ,BJL,BJRaster,BSCC lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Polled port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 ppc1: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f on isa0 ppc1: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc1: FIFO with 16/16/15 bytes threshold ppc2: <Parallel port> at port 0x278-0x27f on isa0 ppc2: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A sio2 at port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 10 on isa0 sio2: type 16550A sio3 at port 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 11 on isa0 sio3: type 16550A vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port) acd0: CDROM <ALPS ELECTRIC CO.,LTD. DC544C> at ata1-master PIO3 Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle de0: enabling 100baseTX port My device.hints: hint.fdc.0.at="isa" hint.fdc.0.port="0x3F0" hint.fdc.0.irq="6" hint.fdc.0.drq="2" hint.fd.0.at="fdc0" hint.fd.0.drive="0" hint.ata.0.at="isa" hint.ata.0.port="0x1F0" hint.ata.0.irq="14" hint.ata.1.at="isa" hint.ata.1.port="0x170" hint.ata.1.irq="15" hint.atkbdc.0.at="isa" hint.atkbdc.0.port="0x060" hint.atkbd.0.at="atkbdc" hint.atkbd.0.irq="1" hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1" hint.vga.0.at="isa" hint.sc.0.at="isa" hint.sc.0.flags="0x100" hint.npx.0.at="nexus" hint.npx.0.port="0x0F0" hint.npx.0.irq="13" hint.sio.0.at="isa" hint.sio.0.port="0x3F8" hint.sio.0.flags="0x10" hint.sio.0.irq="4" hint.sio.1.at="isa" hint.sio.1.port="0x2F8" hint.sio.1.irq="3" hint.sio.2.at="isa" hint.sio.2.port="0x3E8" hint.sio.2.irq="10" hint.sio.3.at="isa" hint.sio.3.port="0x2E8" hint.sio.3.irq="11" hint.ppc.0.at="isa" hint.ppc.1.at="isa" hint.ppc.2.at="isa" I thought that I possibly need a device hint for lpt but none is documented it seems and all I tried where ignored. devinfo shows that also ppi is only connected to ppc0: [48]cicely13# devinfo nexus0 npx0 pcib0 pci0 hostb0 isab0 isa0 atkbdc0 atkbd0 fdc0 fd0 ppc0 ppbus0 lpt0 ppi0 ppc1 ppbus1 ppc2 ppbus2 sc0 sio0 sio1 sio2 sio3 vga0 orm0 atpic0 atdma0 attimer0 attimer1 npxisa0 sysresource0 pcibus_pnp0 atapci0 ata0 ata1 ahc0 de0 eisa0 mca0 -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message