On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:01:15AM +0200, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> Hello list (again), 
>   
>   Hopefully someone can give me a bit of advice or input on this; I have
>   an "old" Ultrasparc 1 workstation running NetBSD 1.6.1 smoothly. The
>   only problem I wasn't able to figure out was how to get any of the
>   parallel ports working to recognize a connected printer (a quite new
>   HP LaserJet 3300, but that shouldn't matter, should it?). CUPS is what
>   I'd like to use and it compiled without any problems (with the needed
>   dependencies etc etc).
> 
>   As for kernel configuration:
>   I used the GENERIC and GENERIC32 kernel config files, renaming them to
>   HOSTNAME and HOSTNAME32, modifying the "include GENERIC32" line to
>   HOSTNAME32 and adding support for IPFilter. Other than that I haven't 
>   changed anything in the kernel as it seems to have support for lpt and
>   bpp enabled by default in the config files.
> 
>   So what is it I need to do to get the parallel port(s) (lpt, bpp) working?
>   Have I forgotten anything? 

Do you have a /dev/bpp?  (BTW, some newer printers use a bi-directional protocol
that doesn't seem to play well with the bpp driver.)

Eduardo