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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!easix!knobel!andreas From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm) Subject: Re: Compilation of Kernel and a little more.. Organization: Andreas Klemm, D-4040 Neuss 21 References: <1u0egj$fnn@news.ysu.edu> Message-ID: <1993May30.134352.4727@knobel.GUN.de> Date: Sun, 30 May 93 13:43:52 GMT Lines: 24 In <1u0egj$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. No, that should be OK. Perhaps .... Is your printer attached to the computer and is the printer ON, when you boot your system ? My printer port isn't recognized if I boot 386bsd and let the printer turned off. -- ---- Andreas Klemm ------- /////// andreas@knobel.GUN.de \\\\\\\ private : +49 2137 12609 D-4040 Neuss 21 (Norf), Germany at work : +49 2173 3964 161 Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Telefax : +49 2173 3964 222 Abteilung Unix Support, D-4019 Monheim