Parallel Printer Problem

[Donald Szatkowski]

Thank you for considering my question.

I am having trouble getting a direct parallel port printer to work. I have 
narrowed the problem down to the initial boot process, but am unable to 
resolve the problem of no printer port. The problem is that the parallel port 
fails to initialize at startup.

#uname -a 
	FreeBSD bsd4_10.maingear.com 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0:
	Tue May 25 22:47?12 GMT 2004
	root at perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386	

#dmesg:
	Copyright (c) 1979,1980,1983,1986,1988,1989,1991,1992,1993,1994
		The Regents of the University of California, All rights reserved.
	FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25 22:47:12 GMT 2004
		root at perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
	Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
	CPU: Pentium/P54C (99.47-MHz 586-class CPU)
		Origin= "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x525  Stepping = 5
		Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
	real memory = 134217728  (131072K bytes)
	avail memory = 125169664  (122236K bytes)
	Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug
	md0: Malloc disk
	npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
	npx0: INT 16 interface
	pcib0: <Host to PCI Bridge> on motherboard
	pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
	isab0: <Intel 82371FB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
	isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
	atapci0: <Intel PIIX ATA controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on pci0
	ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
	ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
	pci0: <S3 Trio graphics accelerator> at 14.0 irq 9
	dc0: <AEMtek AN985 10/100BaseTX> port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xffbeec00-oxffbeefff 
		irq 10 at device 15.0 on pci0
	dc0: Ethernet address: 00:20:78:1e:be:f7
	miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0
	ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
	ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
	orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xed000, 0xed000-0xedfff on isa0
	pmtimer0 on isa0
	fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irrq 6 drq 2 on  isa0
	fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
	fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
	atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
	atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
	kbd0 at atkbd0
	psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
	psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
	vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
	sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
	sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
	sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
	sio0: type 16550A
	sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff issq 3 on isa0
	sio1: type 16550A
	ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
	ad0: 58644MB <Maxtor 6Y060L0> [119150/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2
	acd0: CDROM <SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140> at ata1-master PIO4
	mounting root from ufs:ad0s1a
#

The following is info from Windows98 system report:
	IRQ usage summary:
		07 - Printer port (LPT1)
	I/O port usage summary:
		03BCh-03BFh - Printer port (LPT1)

The following was attempted:
	# /dev/MAKEDEV lpt0
	# dmesg | grep lpt0
	no response, just returned to root cursor
	#

	ALSO:
		#dmesg:Boot
			ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range

From the dmesg at boot, it is obvious that the ppc0 cannot reserve I/O range 
needed for the parallel port.  My problem is , I don't know what to do NOW!!!!
I can find no reference in the Handbook or in FAQ's that address my problem.
Can anyone assist in getting this printer to work?

by the way, printer works fine with 98.

Thanks in advance

Donald Szatkowski