On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 04:00, Mike M wrote: > My Epson parallel port printer is currently hanging off of a W98 machine and > I use CUPS clients on my Linux WS to print using the machine. I'd like to > hang the printer off the SPARC fileserver and turn it into a print server as > well.
I use my Ultra 5 as an everything server (firewall, CVS, Samba, apache, X server and of course CUPS). I have it attached to an HP1100 which the kernel autodetects properly. It works fine, the only issue is that the priner is a little slow, which I suspect is because CUPS/Ghostscript is sending the page as a bitmap instead of as PCL. My kernel is 2.4.21-rc3. The relevant section of my config follows. Don't forget to modprobe parport_pc, parport and lp. HTH, - Matthew =================== .config ========================= # # Parallel port support # CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=m CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_PCMCIA=m # CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_MFC3 is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_ATARI is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_GSC is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP is not set # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y
