From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Miguel A. Rasero" Subject: RE: Serial printer problem Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 16:03:25 +0200 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <000001c34a10$b2da02b0$0500a8c0@skuda> References: <20030714015039.GE1031@dbz.icequake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030714015039.GE1031@dbz.icequake.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hi Ryan, When i try to do direct access like you say, ms-dos gives me an error that com1 isn=B4t a valid name device. Hi Miguel, On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 02:12:32AM +0200, Miguel A. Rasero wrote: > Hi ryan > I have saw the charset options in the new technical readme in the > development versions but i have not tested yet because i am having very > trouble with the printer that it?s more important to me, well i take to > 5 hours proving options with setserial and stty, i realized wich when i > tried a "cat largefile > /dev/ttyS0" in linux i had the same result, and > the end of the printed page character disorder and not the whole file > printed, i had tested the closing_wait "infinite" like i saw in the > printing howto but it didn?t worked, i found in a old newsgroup a > message that recommends this. > stty -F /dev/ttyS0 opost onlcr tab3 crtscts > setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16450 Hmm, what kind of motherboard/serial card do you have (does it really only have a 16450 on it?) and what kind of printer is this? > in doc but i don?t understand very well, i need that the dos knows which > is com1, it doesn?t works if i add to the ports list 0x3f8 without sa= y > it that it?s com1. Yeah, you need to add 0x3f8 to $_ports, and probably 4 to $_irqpassing assuming it is on the standard COM1 port. That should accomplish the direct access to com1. Remember to remove anything from "$_com1" that you put in there. --=20 Ryan Underwood, , icq=3D10317253 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html