+ Hey! My printer is slow as a dog. What can I do ?
+
+ If it's parallel, and all your problem is that it's terribly
+ slow, try setting your printer port into ``polled'' mode:
+
+
+ lptcontrol -p
+
+
+ Some newer HP printers are told to not work correctly in
+ interrupt mode, apparently due to some (not yet exactly
+ understood) timing problem. Slowaris is also affected by this
+ (and that's probably the reason why the HP support does rather
+ act like an ``unsupport'' here).
+
+
+ I Installed FreeBSD on my XYZ-brand PC, and my keyboard (and probably bus mouse, too) is locking up after switching between vtys (or even spontaneous). What's wrong?
+
+ Try adding the following option in your kernel configuration file
+ and recompile it.
+
+ options ASYNCH
+
+
+ See the section on [ if you've no experience with building kernels.
+
When I try to mount a CDROM, I get a ``Device not configured'' error. What's going on?
]
@@ -1704,6 +1792,80 @@ pseudo-device vn #Vnode driver (turns a file into a device)
+
+ How does one detect and initialize a Plug N Play ISA card?
+
+ By: Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org>
+
+ In a nutshell, there a few I/O ports that all of the PnP boards
+ respond to when the host asks if anyone is out there. So when
+ the PnP probe routine starts, he asks if there are any PnP boards
+ present, and all the PnP boards respond with their model # to
+ a I/O read of the same port, so the probe routine gets a wired-OR
+ ``yes'' to that question. At least one bit will be on in that
+ reply. Then the probe code is able to cause boards with board
+ model IDs (assigned by Microsoft/Intel) lower than X to go
+ ``off-line''. It then looks to see if any boards are still
+ responding to the query. If the answer was ``
Kernel Configuration
@@ -2200,6 +2362,9 @@ disable pred1
tcp_extensions=NO
+ Xylogic's Annex boxes are also broken in this regard and you must
+ use the above change to connect thru them.
+
I want to enable IP multicast support on my FreeBSD box, how do I do it? (Alternatively: What the heck IS multicasting and what applications make use of it?)