On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:18:40PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a user of Debian/i386 for several years but absolutely > new to Debian/Sparc. > > I installed Debian potato to SparcClassic several days ago > and it works fine. I can print to remote printer (PS printer). > > I have SparcPrinter connected to SparcClassic so I want to > use it but it does not work yet... > > >From the information in this lists I did as follows > > * bpp.o seemed needed so I did "insmod bpp.o" and it worked fine. > * there were no /dev/lp? so did "MAKEDEV lp" and also "MAKEDEV par" > and "MAKEDEV parport" (but I don't know these are necessary or not). > * echo "abc" > /dev/lp0 (or lp1) causes nothing at all. > echo "abc" > /dev/lp2 said there is no such devices. > * Setting up /etc/printcap with /dev/lp0 did not work either.
I think you need atleast one more module. I think it is called either parport_ax or parport_pc (or something similar) so that PC style hardware will work. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
