kardel@Nagler-Consult.COM wrote
> At Thu, 2 Mar 2000 15:05:06 -0800 (PST) , Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au> wrote: 
> 
> >itojun@iijlab.net wrote
> 
> >> >I am running NetBSD-1.4S on a ASUS-P3B-F/Celeron 466 System and
> 
> I have also noticed kernel crashes with my ASUS P2B-S Board. Reconfiguring
> The parallel port to dumb mode in BIOS didn't help. The printer
> is an HP-OfficeJet. The crash seems to be more of the sort
> runaway kernel stack (for whatever reason). Up to now i have
> not been able to grab any information. It is just a sure kill
> (black screen - and reboot).
> 
> Kernel version was 1.4T. Any clues ? I think there was also a 
> bug report to that respect, but is seemed to be older and didn't
> reach a conclusion yet (sorry no bugnumer handy).

Ok, I've got it working again....

I did the same, downgraded the parallel port to normal, removed the
-s option for lpd etc. pp. to no avail. I then had another look at my
printcap file where the printer definition was inserted right after
the copyright banner at the top - see below:

#	$NetBSD: printcap,v 1.3 1996/05/08 17:19:45 thorpej Exp $
#	from: @(#)printcap	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93

lp|Kyocera FS600:\
	:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
	:sd=/var/spool/lpd:\
	:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
	:if=/usr/pkg/libexec/magicfilter/ljet4-filter:\
	:mx#0:\
	:sh:

#lp|local line printer:\
#	:lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

# DecWriter over a tty line.
#decwriter|LA-180 DecWriter III:\
#	:br#1200:fs#06320:tr=\f:of=/usr/libexec/lpr/lpf:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

# Typical remote printer entry.
#remote|Line Printer:\
#	:lp=:rm=remote_machine:sd=/var/spool/output/remotelpd:\
#	:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

#varian|Benson Varian:\
#	:lp=/dev/va0:sd=/var/spool/output/vad:\
#	:mx#2000:pl#58:px#2112:py#1700:tr=\f:\
#	:of=/usr/libexec/lpr/vpf:if=/usr/libexec/lpr/vpf:\
#	:tf=/usr/libexec/lpr/rvcat:cf=/usr/libexec/lpr/vdmp:\
#	:gf=/usr/libexec/lpr/vplotf:df=/usr/local/dvif:\
#	:vf=/usr/libexec/lpr/vpltdmp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

#vp|versatec|Versatec plotter:\
#	:lp=/dev/vp0:sd=/var/spool/output/vpd:\
#	:sb:sf:mx#0:pw#106:pl#86:px#7040:py#2400:\
#	:of=/usr/libexec/lpr/vpfW:if=/usr/libexec/lpr/vpsf:\
#	:tf=/usr/libexec/lpr/vcat:cf=/usr/libexec/lpr/vdmp:\
#	:gf=/usr/libexec/lpr/vplotf:vf=/usr/libexec/lpr/vpltdmp:\
#	:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
#	:tr=\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\
#\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\
#\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n:

After deleting everything following my printer definitions, it started
to work without crashing the system again. Beats me, as I can't see
anything wrong by leaving the commented example entries in the
file. 

Perhaps worth a try.... let me know how it went...

cheerio Berndt
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