fag@norad.UUCP (Florian Gutzwiller) (09/15/88)
I got quite other strange problems with 'lp'. When I boot my 386-SCO on
my 25MHZ CPU only COM1 and COM2 are detected. Some days ago LPT's were
detected too, but now ?? The crazy thing is: When I run Norton's SI
under VP/ix it detects again LPT1 and LPT2 and VP/ix does even print.
NOW! Why does SCO not print ? Is my bus too fast ? - No. What else ?
HEEELP ...
Sometimes I'd rather do some Black Magic ...
Florian
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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) (09/21/88)
In article <8@norad.UUCP> fag@norad.UUCP (Florian Gutzwiller) writes: | I got quite other strange problems with 'lp'. When I boot my 386-SCO on | my 25MHZ CPU only COM1 and COM2 are detected. Some days ago LPT's were | detected too, but now ?? The crazy thing is: When I run Norton's SI This usually means that you are simply polling the devices faster than they can respond. The autoconfig does something like out something in something which all happens too fast for some boards to respond. I had the problem that when booting with cache the system thought it had arnet boards. I "fixed" it by rebuilding the kernel with only standard serial support (thanks, whoever told me about it). If you can easily replace your parallel port, even as a test, you may be able to solve or better identify the problem. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me