Subject: Re: Parallel port woes --- still not solved
To: Peter Simons <simons@petium.rhein.de>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/17/1996 00:52:06
Peter Simons wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
...
> The printer on-/offline signal? Hard to imagine, frankly. Even 'out of
> paper' doesn't sound like something too esotheric IMHO.

Funny... I'm consistently getting: /netbsd: stray interrupt 7 on 
my machine, and I don't have a parallel port at all.  Yet another
"interesting" thing about PC hardware/interrupts.

-Andrew