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?
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Index: GENERIC
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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
