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. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
