P.S. FreeBSD 6.1: open(/dev/lpt0, O_WRONLY) hangs up

[george+freebsd at m5p.com]

P.S. Here's what dmesg has to say about my parallel port:

ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77b irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0
ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
ppbus0: <OKI DATA CORP OKIPAGE 10ex> PJL,PCLXL,PCL,EPSONFX,IBMPPR
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0