Matthew Duggan wrote: > Hi, > > Since there's been two independant reports of problems with parport > stuff on FreeBSD 5.2.1, it seems like there may be a problem with > FBSD 5.2.1 and the libieee1284 port. I checked up the changelog to > see what might have caused it, and this line makes me suspicious: > > --- > The puc(4) PCI Universal Communications driver now supports connecting > parallel ports to the ppc(4) driver. > --- > (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/relnotes-i386.html) > > It's quite possible that something to do with that is breaking the > direct access to the parallel port through /dev/io which libieee1284 > performs. Unfortunately I don't have a FBSD machine handy to test this > theory.. has anyone out there had any success in getting libieee1284 > access on FBSD 5.2.1 working? > > Cheers, > > - Matthew Duggan >
Hi, The puc driver is supposed to support "dumb" parallel PCI interface cards. I tried enabling it in the kernel (even though my parport is onboard), no difference. Also, I'm not sure how new this is, but FBSD 5.2.1 has a /dev/ppi0, which is supposed to be for ieee1284 device access. Perhaps libieee1284 needs to try this instead of /dev/io? I'm still working on this intermittently.... Later, Micah
