On Fri, 2005-07-29 08:52:03 +0200, F. Kappen <kappen@tfh-berlin.de> wrote: > I have am Ultra1 with sarge installed (kernel 2.4.27-2-sparc64). I want > to use it as a headless printserver. Although I compiled a custom kernel > with "CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP=m" enabled the parallel port doesn't work. > Doing a "cat ~/.bashrc > /dev/lp0" results in an error message on the > printer's display. Indeed, there are statements around that the sunbpp driver is broken, and was so for quite some time. > Next I tried to print via the serial port, but without success. I guess > that the serial port is not setup correctly. So can someone tell me > please where I can find information about configuring the serial port > of an Ultra1. How did you actually try to print? The serial port is probably the interface with the highest number of user-defined settings, so you should outline what you actually did to print data with it. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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