Support for a PCI parallel port ?

From: Ken Stone (ken_at_sdd.hp.com)
Date: 11/02/05 

Date: 2 Nov 2005 11:17:17 -0800

Does 5.4 possibly support a PCI card based parallel port ? Can't find
any mention in the docs of anything but ISA ... My builtin on the PCI/ISA
bridge is brain-dead so I am trying to drop in a PCI PnP parallel port
card and I can't get FreeBSD to detect it ....

Any help appreciated

  -- Ken

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