Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: > 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.
Well, I compiled a 2.2 kernel on my SparcClassic (24MB RAM, 1.3GB HD). It took about 4-5 hours. So you *can* compile a kernel yourself. Just be patient ;-) > 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? Sorry I can't help you on this topic. Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
