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- From: Kay Roemer <roemer@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
- Posted-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 9:27:46 MESZ
- Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 09:27:46 +0200
- Message-Id: <9406280727.AA07385@hera.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
- Subject: Re: lpdev v0.6
- To: bousch@topo.matups.fr (Thierry Bousch) (Thierry Bousch)
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 9:27:46 MESZ
- In-Reply-To: <9406271309.AA22677@topo.matups.fr>; from "Thierry Bousch" at Jun 27, 94 3:09 pm
- Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85]
-
- > I have also noticed that lpdev ceased to work after applying Kay's net
- > patches to the kernel. Apparently, there is interference with the PLIP
- > driver, which is not too surprising since each one wants to reprogram
- > the MFP interrupt source 0 for its own use. You could probably fix the
- > problem by commenting out the PLIP code (haven't tested); more simply,
- > just send anything to /dev/centr, after that /dev/lp should work just
- > fine. (I haven't an explanation for this, but I guess that PLIP fiddles
- > with the active edge register, and that -one- Centronics interrupt is
- > enough to put things back in order.)
-
- Yes, the PLIP driver changes nearly all registers having to do with
- the centronics port, including AER.
-
- I will upload Mint-Net 0.51 today which has loadable Network Interfaces.
- So if you wan't to use your centronix port for printing you just leave
- out plip.xif :)
-
- Kay.
-