On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 03:24:48PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > What is needed is a *comment* in GENERIC telling users to change net to tty > if they want to use their printers. Agreed. Attached is a trivial patch to GENERIC, for -stable only. The same line in GENERIC in -current looks like device ppc0 at isa? irq 7 so I assume -current doesn't have that problem. This will close conf/16394. Any objections? N -- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis shoe stamping on a penguin's face forever. --- with apologies to George Orwell
Index: GENERIC =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v retrieving revision 1.143.2.26 diff -u -r1.143.2.26 GENERIC --- GENERIC 2000/01/31 21:30:31 1.143.2.26 +++ GENERIC 2000/02/15 12:28:32 @@ -154,6 +154,10 @@ device sio3 at isa? disable port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 # Parallel port +# +# Note: The ppc0 entry is to support networking over the parallel port. +# If you will be printing to it, change "net" to "tty", and +# review ppc(4) to ensure you have the correct flags value. device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7 controller ppbus0 # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt0 at ppbus? # Printer