Subject: Re: serial oorts: how to access?
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Donald Lee <donlee_ppc@icompute.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/11/2002 16:51:19
I will be surprised if you can get serial to work with a printer.
Has anyone out there done it?  Although serial works
OK as a console, that's about it.

-dgl-

>I have an old Stylewriter I am thinking of bringing back into 
>service but can't work out how to use it. The system is an old 
>9500 with both a modem and printer port. I have the stylewriter 
>driver installed and have added the printcap stanzas to my 
>printcap file. But what device do I point /dev/stylewriter at?
>
>here's what dmesg says: I know zstty0 is the console and that it 
>works, since I have used it today (it uses the modem port). So 
>zstty1 is the printer port.
>
>zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0 (console)
>zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
>
>I also have ulpt0 and ulpt1: are they the moral equivalent of lpt0 
>and lpt1?
>-- 
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