Ultra1, printing via serial port?

2005-07-29 Thread F. Kappen
Hi all, I have am Ultra1 with sarge installed (kernel 2.4.27-2-sparc64). I want to use it as a headless printserver. Although I compiled a custom kernel with CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP=m enabled the parallel port doesn't work. Doing a cat ~/.bashrc /dev/lp0 results in an error message on the

Re: Ultra1, printing via serial port?

2005-07-29 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Fri, 2005-07-29 08:52:03 +0200, F. Kappen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have am Ultra1 with sarge installed (kernel 2.4.27-2-sparc64). I want to use it as a headless printserver. Although I compiled a custom kernel with CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP=m enabled the parallel port doesn't work. Doing a

Re: Between a rock a hard place, need monolithic 2.4.2x kernel for sun4m

2005-07-29 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Eric Jorgensen wrote: I also question the wisdom of requiring an initrd to boot with the sun4cdm kernel image. I am not aware of any sun4cdm machines (other than the javastations) that have a storage medium other than scsi that are supported by linux, and very few that have a scsi

Re: Ultra1, printing via serial port?

2005-07-29 Thread F. Kappen
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-29 08:52:03 +0200, F. Kappen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have am Ultra1 with sarge installed (kernel 2.4.27-2-sparc64). I want to use it as a headless printserver. Although I compiled a custom kernel with CONFIG_PARPORT_SUNBPP=m enabled the parallel

Re: 2.6.12 testers wanted

2005-07-29 Thread Jean Robertson
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:28:42PM +0100, Dave Love wrote: Jean Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you need to change in the setup? The mouse has to be set to /dev/input/mice and the keyboard has to be xfree86 and pc104 Everything else is the same. The same as for a 2.4

Re: Ultra1, printing via serial port?

2005-07-29 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Fri, 2005-07-29 15:13:45 +0200, F. Kappen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The serial port of my Ultra1 is configured like this: myUltra1: # eeprom ttyb-mode ttyb-mode=9600,8,n,1,- That's how the OBP will use the serial port. This is totally different to the options that may be set by the Linux

RE: An (flamebait ?) idea to preserve debian on sparc32...

2005-07-29 Thread Steve
Well, I have mailed to this list before and said ... I have a SPARC 4 sun4m working quite happily with the 2.6.12-1-sparc32 kernel running a fully upgraded sarge installation. Perhaps the reason for it being so happy is because this box is just being used a DNS/Syslog server with no monitor