From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Underwood Subject: Re: Serial printer problem Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:06:45 -0500 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030714170645.GN1031@dbz.icequake.net> References: <20030714015039.GE1031@dbz.icequake.net> <000001c34a10$b2da02b0$0500a8c0@skuda> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c34a10$b2da02b0$0500a8c0@skuda> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Miguel, Are you root when you run dosemu (or using sudo)? Direct port access needs root. Ryan On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:03:25PM +0200, Miguel A. Rasero wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > When i try to do direct access like you say, ms-dos gives me an error > that com1 isn?t 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 say > > 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. > > -- > Ryan Underwood, , icq=10317253 > - > 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 > -- Ryan Underwood, , icq=10317253