I've played with /etc/printcap quite a bit but haven't had any luck so
far.  The printcap entry I included in my previous message is pretty
basic and I think should work for just spitting out text;  it's certainly
possible I've missed something though.

I know that getting the parallel port to work has been an issue for a long
time, both for NetBSD and Linux, and an old Usenet message on a
Sparc/Linux newsgroup mentioned a bug in the parallel port controller on
the LX, but no specifics; this kind of vague information is typical of
what I've found so far.

I'm hoping that someone who actually worked on the bpp driver might
know something;  I'd hate to waste too much time chasing print daemon
configuration problems if the driver or hardware are buggy :-)

Meanwhile, I'll guess I'll try out CUPS or LPRng soon, in case it IS an
LPD issue.

Thanks,
Greg Dunlap

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > 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 ?
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>      NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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