Subject: Re: NetBSD support SPARCprinter card?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG, jehamby@lightside.com>
From: Captech) <greywolf@aahz.VAS.viewlogic.com (James Graham>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/21/1995 12:58:55
#: From owner-port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG Wed Sep 20 13:33:37 1995
#: Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:31:54 -0700 (PDT)
#: From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
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#: To: port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG
#: Subject: NetBSD support SPARCprinter card?
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#: I have access to three SPARCstation 2's at work that I'm just dying to
#: install NetBSD on. Unfortunately, two are going to be people's desktop
#: machines (who need to run SunOS). The remaining machine is sitting on my
#: desk and I can do whatever I want to it, with one problem: It's hooked
#: up to a LaserJet III printer via a SPARCprinter SBus card. The driver is
#: a SunOS loadable kernel module. Does NetBSD (either 1.0 or -current)
#: support this kind of parallel port? If it does, it'll be a piece of cake
#: for me to load up Ghostscript and provide print services just as I was
#: doing under SunOS. If not, the only other option is to spring $50 on one
#: of those non-standard Sun printer cables to plug it into a SPARC 20 (the
#: current cable connector is too tall and the latches are the wrong shape
#: to attach to the SPARC 20 printer port).
* WHAT * SPARC 20 printer port?!?
On the back of an SS20 I see:
[MBUS] [SBUS3] [SBUS1]
[MBUS] [SBUS2] [SBUS0]
[dbri]
[Mono FB] [A/B ser] (KB) [dbri] [TP] [SCSI] [Audio I/O]
I don't see anything resembling a printer port. You're probably best off
shoving your bpp into one of the lower slots on the '20 and going that way.
--*greywolf;
Any suggestions?
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