svn commit: r210175 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall

b. f. bf1783 at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 17 20:02:18 UTC 2010


Peter Jeremy wrote:
>On 2010-Aug-16 00:06:35 +0200, Marc Fonvieille <blackend at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>We still support PLIP (with a laplink cable) since a plip0 interface
>>is displayed on this screen during installation if you have a parallel
>>port on the motherboard.
>
>Has anyone actually verified that it still works?  I know I haven't
>used it for more than a decade.

It worked when I tested it not so long ago, after John Baldwin made it mpsafe:

http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=187576

Slow, but occasionally useful.

b.


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