Re: SBUS Sparc printer card.

2001-12-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:57:32PM +0100, Eric Huiban wrote: I'm wondering if such card is supported either for using the SparcPrinter port or for using the bidirectionnal // port ? If a draft of driverexist somewhere ? Or if all the data relevant to this SBUS card are available ? I'm

Re: [Re: SBUS Sparc printer card.]

2001-12-17 Thread Eric
If I recall correctly, the SPARCprinter card is similar to a framebuffer, not a standard parallel port. I'd suggest taking a look at the really, really old archives of the sparclinux list as this does get mentioned time to time. E Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at

Re: [Re: SBUS Sparc printer card.]

2001-12-17 Thread Eric Huiban
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 00:34, Eric wrote: If I recall correctly, the SPARCprinter card is similar to a framebuffer, not a standard parallel port. I'd suggest taking a look at the really, really old archives of the sparclinux list as this does get mentioned time to time. While digging

Re: SBUS Sparc printer card.

2001-12-17 Thread Eric
Here's an archived message that pretty much sums it up: http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-sparc/1999-Oct/0080.html I doubt the interface documentation was ever released, and even so, unless you have a few years supply of SPARCprinter toner it could not possibly be worth the effort. That

Re: [Re: SBUS Sparc printer card.]

2001-12-17 Thread Andrew Sharp
Eric Huiban wrote: p.s. Any happy debianer playing with SBUS FDDI adapters (AMD AM79C830 + sram + ATT FFDI xcvr) here ? I'm unsure that a so old stuff can be used with Linux... :-))) Er, no, but I've got an sbus card that says: CDDI(tm)/MLT-3 on the external plate, and has status and

Re: [Re: SBUS Sparc printer card.]

2001-12-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:03:46AM +0100, Eric Huiban wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2001 00:34, Eric wrote: If I recall correctly, the SPARCprinter card is similar to a framebuffer, not a standard parallel port. I'd suggest taking a look at the really, really old archives of the