On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:04:39AM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > Hello, > > On my NetBSD 5.1.2/i386 system, there are man pages for ppbus. But from > grep'ing the sources, it seems the support is only included (optionally) > for acorn32. There is a conditional in > sys/arch/i386/pnpbios/files.pnpbios for "!ppbus" and that's all. > > Is there no support except in acorn32?
I used it successfully on i386, using a custom kernel. You have to remove or comment out all lpt devices and then add the stuff from the manpage. > (FWIW, the reason is to try to get status information from the printer > via HP PJL for a parallel port printer, and this needs bi-directional > parallel port support.) I don't know how well this works. I only used it to get gpio(4) access to the parallel port pins. Hans -- %SYSTEM-F-ANARCHISM, The operating system has been overthrown
