Re: Q: printer on C= multiserial card

["Eric Delcamp" <edelcamp%easynet.fr@localhost>]

Hi !

The driver for the multiserial card was disable for some times in -current
kernels, but rework at least with the Gateway 3 kernel. Don't know the state
of -current. Nothing changed for me.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>
À : koch%gauss.mpip-mainz.mpg.de@localhost 
<koch%gauss.mpip-mainz.mpg.de@localhost>;
PORT-AMIGA%netbsd.org@localhost <PORT-AMIGA%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date : samedi 2 janvier 1999 21:17
Objet : Re: Q: printer on C= multiserial card


>On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 05:44:31PM +0200, 
>koch%gauss.mpip-mainz.mpg.de@localhost
wrote:
>> I'm using a LJ4 MP, connnected via a serial cable to a Commodore
multiserial
>> card. With NetBSD 1.2 it worked fine with a printcap entry '/dev/ttyB1'
for the
>> output device. Since my update to 1.3.2 it seems, that the printer cannot
be
>> found anymore. 'lpq' says, that the printer might be offline.
>> Has something beeing changed from 1.2 to 1.3.2 concerning the serial
devices?
>
>*thinking* my -current MAKEDEV still has the ttyB1 and ttyBm1
>(for blocking/nonblocking). However, the nonblocking devices have been
>regularized, and might be more picky about carrier signal than they used to
>be.
>
>If you don't have CD wired, you should try /dev/ttyBm1 instead.
>
>Uhm... I assume, as you didn't write otherwise, that you still see the
>driver attaching in the kernel startup messages?