An extract of dmesg of my NetBSD server:

bash-2.05$ dmesg
c/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAID5
cpu0: AMD Athlon Model 4 (Thunderbird) (686-class), 1338.17 MHz
total memory = 255 MB
avail memory = 230 MB
using 3297 buffers containing 13188 KB of memory
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfdaf0
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: VIA Technologies product 0x3099 (rev. 0x00)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: VIA Technologies product 0xb099 (rev. 0x00)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: S3 Trio3D/2X (rev. 0x02)
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
CMD Technology PCI0649 (RAID mass storage, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 5
function
 0 not configured
unknown vendor 0x9710 product 0x9805 (miscellaneous communications, revision
0x0
1) at pci0 dev 7 function 0 not configured

The question is how to turn it on. I can find a lot of info in the hardware
support page of NetBSD website.

David Kwok
LLK Pty Ltd

PGP key id 0x428084d4
key server: gpg.nic.ad.jp
finger print:A955 F46A 3565 9B09 F514 5B5F 7137 C9B6 4280 84D4

----- Original Message -----
From: "Juergen Hannken-Illjes" <hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de>
To: "iware" <dkwok@iware.com.au>
Cc: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: PCI printer card


> Please send a dmesg(8) output. I need the PCI vendor/id to answer your
> question.
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 08:30:34AM +1000, iware wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I need to install a second printer port on my NetBSD-1.5.2 server. And
these
> > days most motherboards have abandoned the ISA bus and the only choice is
PCI
> > printer card. I check the man page and the GENERIC config file and could
not
> > figure out how to turn on the Pci switch to detect the printer card.
> >
> > I did try to change the isa setting of lpt1 to pci 0 dev 0 function 0
and
> > the config complains that it has to be isa interface.
> >
> > The printer card is Kouwell PCI, the chipset is NetMos NM9805cv. It
claims
> > to work in Linux.  So does it work on NetBSD?
> >
> > Any comment is welcome? I am not on the list so cc to me will be much
> > appreciated.
> >
> > David Kwok
> > LLK Pty Ltd
> >
> > PGP key id 0x428084d4
> > key server: gpg.nic.ad.jp
> > finger print:A955 F46A 3565 9B09 F514 5B5F 7137 C9B6 4280 84D4
> >
> >
>
> --
> Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig
(Germany)
>