Subject: Re: Parallel port woes --- still not solved
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Peter Simons <simons@petium.rhein.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/17/1996 02:53:11
Ken Hornstein wrote:

 > So personally, I'd just use the polling driver :-)  Is there a reason you
 > really want to get the interrupt driven one working?

Not really, besides the fact that it is hard to understand why an
operating system in the year 1996 should not be able to handle the
interrupts. :-)

No seriously, the polled driver works fine.I just wonder why it keeps
telling me that my printer would be offline or out of paper even
though it definitely isn't.


 > but I suspect your hardware is slightly out-of-spec.

The printer on-/offline signal? Hard to imagine, frankly. Even 'out of
paper' doesn't sound like something too esotheric IMHO.


 > You could always comment those messages out in the driver source.

You're kidding, right? :-)

	-peter