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From: rjn@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Parallell line connection from 9000/400s to LJ-III?
Message-ID: <7370375@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 91 19:08:05 GMT
References: <1991Apr18.160345*Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/FSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
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re: >>We have a LJ-III that we would like to connect to a 400s server using
    >>a parallel connection. 

> However, our version of Unix didn't include kernel drivers for the
> parallel device.  We obtained them from HP, rebuild the kernel.  And then
> used the device /dev/parallel, which the UPDATE script created.

> This worked like a charm.  The key was getting the driver from HP.

If your local HP support representative does not have the 7.0/7.03 patch,
have them contact me (it is not on our normal patch system).  The driver
bits are in 7.05, but the documentation in the patch shar won't be formal
until 8.0, so the shar is useful even on 7.05.

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
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