On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 05:34:08AM +0100, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:04:39AM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com 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. >
Thanks for the tip! I will try. > > (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. This is at the present not crucial, so it will not be a problem if that does not work. But I want to know how far one can go this way. Best, -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C