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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!alm From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) Subject: Re: Compilation of Kernel and a little more.. Message-ID: <almC7nMFM.AAt@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1u0egj$fnn@news.ysu.edu> Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 21:59:46 GMT Lines: 21 In article <1u0egj$fnn@news.ysu.edu> ak793@yfn.ysu.edu (Scott E. Derby) writes: > >I have finally been able to compile the kernel source. I retrieved >the newer kernel source from sun-lamp along with the new config. >I have a question though. Since I placed lpa0 in the config file >and compiled the kernel, shouldn't I get a lpa0 message when it >determines what is attached to my machine? I have a lpt port, >and it works fine under DOS. Also, when I run MAKEDEV, it >creates the device, but I get the Device not configured error >messagewhenever I try to write to it. MAKEDEV creates it as 25,0. >Should I use a different major,minor??? > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Try: lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 4 Nov 5 1992 /dev/lp -> lpt1 crw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 16, 48 Mar 6 22:28 /dev/lpt0 crw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 16, 49 Mar 6 22:29 /dev/lpt1 crw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 16, 50 Mar 6 22:29 /dev/lpt2 (the name lpt is more-or-less arbitrary)