Re: Parallel port on SparcClassic

[Alexander Shumakovitch <shurik@math.unibas.ch>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:51:24PM +0200, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote:
> I have Debian 2.1 (Slink) with kernel 2.0.35 running beautifully on           
> SparcClassic. But yesterday I got stuck while trying to connect my printer
> (HP
> LJ 5L) to it.                                                                 
After waiting for a while and not getting any positive reply I started to
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.

So the tone of my questions is a little bit different now: does anyone have a
custom-build kernel with this option enabled? Have anyone ever had a success
with connecting a printer to a Sparc/Linux box?

Thanks again in advance for any incite!

 --- Alexander.