Subject: Re: NetBSD support SPARCprinter card?
To: None <jehamby@lightside.com, hamby@aris.jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/20/1995 12:42:26
> 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?  [...]  Any suggestions?

There's no support for this card (specifically, the SUNW,bpp device), to my
knowledge.

Why not move the card to one of the 2 SPARCstation 2's that have to remain
SunOS systems?

(You mean there'll be a 2nd NetBSD/SPARC system at JPL now?  Cool  (-: )

	- Greg