On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:02:59PM +0000, gdunlap@san.rr.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering what the status of the bpp driver is?  I noticed that it's
> now listed under "supported" on the web page for 1.6.
> 
> Here's the situation:
> I have an Epson Stylus Color 740 connected to the parallel port of a Sparc
> LX, running NetBSD 1.6. If I simply cat a file to /dev/bpp0 it prints, but
> printing via LPR doesn't do anything but make the printer feed the paper a
> couple of times.  The job just sits in the queue until I remove it;
> nothing's reported in /var/log/messages or /var/log/lpd-errors.
> 
> Here's my /etc/printcap entry for the printer:
> 
> ep0|Stylus Color 740 360dpi:\
>         :lp=/dev/bpp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ep0:\
>         :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs
> 
> Is this device really supported now?  MAKEDEV still doesn't create
> /dev/bpp0 - had to do it by hand.  I've search USENET and the NetBSD mail
> archives but there's nothing definitive or recent about this.  Is this
> just a problem with LPD?

If cat'ing a file to /dev/bpp0 works, it's probably an issue with lpd.
Did you look at printcap options ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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