From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 00:11:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA14247 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:11:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zwei.siemens.at (zwei.siemens.at [193.81.246.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA13922 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from p0.hai.siemens.co.at (root@[10.1.143.100]) by zwei.siemens.at (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA22915 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:02:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at by p0.hai.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0wI7gf-00073tC; Fri, 18 Apr 97 09:02 MET DST Received: from zerberus (localhost) by zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10943; Fri, 18 Apr 97 08:28:20 +0200 Message-Id: <33571483.41C67EA6@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:28:19 +0200 From: Helmut Wirth Organization: Siemens AG. Österreich X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4c) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any interest in parallel-port Zip drive support for FreeBSD? References: <373.861323829@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html > > It's apparently very slow, but functional. > > Jordan Hello, I think I have seen this driver. I would be interested if the driver were incorporated into the line printer driver. As it is it is impossible to print while using this driver. I would need two different kernels, one to support my ZIP and one to support the printer. For this reason I did not use the driver. -- Helmut F. Wirth --------------- E-mail: hfwirth@ping.at E-mail (at work): wirth@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at Tel. : +43-1-1707-37610 (at work) FAX : +43-1-1707-57602 (at work)