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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: whatis@primus.COM (....What Is?....) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Serial/parallel ports work under DOS but not NetBSD! Help! Date: 12 Nov 1994 00:39:40 -0600 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 27 Sender: nobody@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <199411120640.WAA05609@primus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.cs.utexas.edu Here's what NetBSD says about my serial/parallel ports when it boots: com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 However, when I try "tip -19200 /dev/tty01" it just pauses, and then says "link down". Same for /dev/tty00. (I know my modem is on com2: in DOS.) ALSO, whenever I lpr *anything*, I get the *exact* *same* garbage! I could be printing /etc/motd, or the FAQ, and still I get the exact same garbage! My serial ports and parallel ports work fine under DOS. I'm running NetBSD 1.0 on a Pentium 90 box with 32 meg of RAM and a 1 gig Western Digital WDAC31000 drive, on an IDE bus. If I can't figure this out soon, I'm just going to switch to Linux. Please help. Mail me if you know how to fix this. Thanks! Steve Boswell whatis@primus.com Television -- tune in, turn on, drop out.