About:
The NetBSD Ppbus Project aims to remedy some of the shortcomings of the current printer driver by porting to NetBSD a more modern implementation of parallel port support in FreeBSD called ppbus. It allows faster modes of operation, IEEE 1284 support, and a generic abstract layer that multiple devices such as printer, PLIP (parallel port Internet protocol, similar to SLIP), and Zip drives. It allows bidirectional communication and an abstract parallel port interface that devices can attach to: the many chipset implementations of the parallel port will only have to provide this common interface.

Author:
Gary Thorpe [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://netbsd-ppbus.sourceforge.net/
Tar/GZ:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/[..]sd-ppbus/ppbus-alpha-1-6.tar.gz?download

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		3 - Alpha
[Environment]		Other Environment
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (revised)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: BSD :: NetBSD
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Printing, System :: Hardware, System :: Operating System Kernels :: BSD

Dependencies: [change]
NetBSD (required)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	alpha-1-6	07-Jun-2004	BSD License (revised)