#: 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>
#: X-Sender: jehamby@localhost
#: To: port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG
#: Subject: NetBSD support SPARCprinter card?
#: 
#: 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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#:      Jake Hamby                         |   E-Mail:  jehamby@lightside.com
#:   Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona  |   System Administrator, JPL
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