Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Printer-Magic Message-ID: <12193@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 20 Sep 88 21:09:01 GMT References: <8@norad.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 20 In article <8@norad.UUCP> fag@norad.UUCP (Florian Gutzwiller) writes: | I got quite other strange problems with 'lp'. When I boot my 386-SCO on | my 25MHZ CPU only COM1 and COM2 are detected. Some days ago LPT's were | detected too, but now ?? The crazy thing is: When I run Norton's SI This usually means that you are simply polling the devices faster than they can respond. The autoconfig does something like out something in something which all happens too fast for some boards to respond. I had the problem that when booting with cache the system thought it had arnet boards. I "fixed" it by rebuilding the kernel with only standard serial support (thanks, whoever told me about it). If you can easily replace your parallel port, even as a test, you may be able to solve or better identify the problem. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me