Do you mind post me an extract of your dmesg showing the details of the
printer card. I am in fact doing a cups server for 2 printers in the office.

David Kwok
LLK Pty Ltd

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Burgess" <burgess@neonramp.com>
To: "Richard Rauch" <rauch@rice.edu>
Cc: "iware" <dkwok@iware.com.au>; <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: PCI printer card


> Quoting Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu>:
>
> > You might consider getting a USB<->parallel adapter.  (I have one that
> > works quite ncely---and unlike the builtin parallel port, the USB
> > converter doesn't sap the system CPU when doing I/O...)
> >
> > There also was mention of a little US $30 (roughly) device that can sit
on
> > an ethernet LAN on one end, and talk to a printer on the other end.
> >
> >
> > ...just a couple of alternative options.
> >
> >
>
> I've built a 'cups' based print server with a PCI LPT card.  I don't have
the
> model number anywhere - it was the $8 card I bought at the local computer
junk
> store.  I plugged it in and turned it on and it worked just fine as lpt2
on the
> PnPBIOS option under -current:
>
> # The above "com*" comments apply, cf. "lpt0" under "ISA parallel
> # "printer interfaces".
> lpt*           at pnpbios? index ?     # parallel ports
>
> I found that the rest of the PnP stuff was dodgy, but the lpt port seems
to
> work fine.
>
> --
> Dave Burgess
> Chief Technology Officer
> Nebraska On-Ramp, Inc
> Bellevue, NE
>
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