Does anyone have an HP DeskWriter working with NetBSD?
Yes, Bill Studenmund (wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu) has written a ghostscript driver for it. He has this to say about it: I’ve got my DeskWriter up, so maybe I can help. Don’t use the LocalTalk connectors. Don’t use printcap to set up the port. lpd uses the old tty setup routines, so it can’t access some of the cool (and needed) features of the modern tty stuff (I’ve forgotten the names of the various routines, so I’m vague). Also, it’s hard-coded to not like bauds above 19200 or so. I forgot exactly where the cutoff is, but AFAIK the routine called to set the baud rate won’t be happy with 57600, so it’s more than just lpd. I’ve got a “stty -f /dev/tty01 raw 57600 crtscts” in my rc.local script. For you, I’d suggest “stty -f /dev/tty01 raw 57600 crtscts opost onlcr”. This will: turn off all character processing, set the port rate, set hardware flow control (which was implimented just so I could get my DW to work), and then turn on output processing so that UNIX’s NL’s get turned into CR’
