[rescue] Sun serial board

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sun Feb 24 00:41:15 CST 2002


On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:28:01PM -0700, Arthur Wouk wrote:
> about printer ports. i believe that /dev/printers/0 can only be
> for the serial parallel card port. for 4m architectures i believe that the
> printer is only /dev/bpp0. at least, on my sparc10 (now defunct - but
> there is hope) /dev/bpp0 was the printer port. for 4c architectures
> there is no parallel port without the add-on.

I also have a /dev/bpp0.  However, prtconf says that SUNW,bpp, instance #0 has
no driver attached either.
 
> still don't understand why you can't get tty07.

I don't know.  I'm wondering if not getting the driver attached has something 
to do with it.  Also, maybe I need to install the SUNWstc package, which I
can't find (but it's supposed to be included post version 2.4).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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