As was suggested, the problem is that when the system automatically brings up the plip0 interface, it grabs the ppbus and doesn't let it go until someone takes the interface down. I now believe this problem was present even in 5.3, but I didn't see it because I routinely compiled custom 5.x kernels, always without plip.
So the real simple fix is to prevent the plip0 interface from coming up. I thought the simple fix for this was to put: ifconfig_plip0="noauto" into my rc.conf. But it still came up anyway. So I put: network_interfaces="sis0 re0 lo0" in rc.conf, explicitly excluding plip0. But plip0 still came up! What am I doing wrong now? (When I manually "ifconfig plip0 down", the whole printing problem is solved.) Whatever the correct way for keeping plip0 off the list of interfaces automagically brought up is, I suggest it should go into /etc/defaults/rc.conf to keep future losers like me from running into this problem. -- George Mitchell _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
