Re: Parallel port on SparcClassic

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote:
> 
> > suspect the worst and indeed somewhere on RH site found that parallel port on
> > sbus SPARCs is listed as unsupported. So I'd like to try 2.2.x kernel hopping
> > it's less unsupported there than in 2.0.35 ;-) The problem now is that all the
> > kernel images in Debian (both slink and potato) are compiled without BPP
> > option, and I have no chances to compile it myself on the poor SparcClassic.
> 
> The BPP driver should work in very new 2.2 kernels, and there's parport
> support in new 2.3 kernels (though I don't think the new 2.3 kernels work
> on sparc32 yet)

Which cable is required to work ?  I connected my printer with a PC cable on
the // port of my SparcClassic (DB25 at one side, Centronics at the other
side) but I cannot send data to the printer.

echo "1" > /dev/lp0

gives a long time to respond after I loaded the bpp module and nothing is
printed.

Thanks in advance.

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