-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 01:34, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > The problem is, I can't even open the paralel port for writing, it > always fails with EBUSY.
/dev/lpt0 expects a printer to be connected (you can open /dev/lpt0.ctl but this is not what you should do..) > on the parallel port I attached a DB-25 wired as a "dummy printer", that > is: strobe->/ack, busy, paper end and select inh, wired together and > then sent to pin 18 (GND). > > Is there anything I'm missing? Are there a "programming and using the > parallel port in FreeBSD" guide? man 4 ppi The interface is a bit gross, but it does work quite well (see the avrdude port for an example of some software that uses it) - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBEG7Y5ZPcIHs/zowRAjyoAKCiAkilygYm3cwmleYeRGOBlE03QQCfQp64 63HouUdFXijhAljS7BM5YiA= =w+sQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
