From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Courtier-Dutton Subject: Re: Dosemu serial port problem Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:18:44 +0100 Message-ID: <48664844.5060809@superbug.co.uk> References: <48660C78.8050901@log69.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <48660C78.8050901@log69.com> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Horv=E1th_Andr=E1s?= Cc: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Horv=E1th Andr=E1s wrote: >=20 > There is a hardware that needs to talk to a dos program running insid= e > dosemu through the com (serial) ports. This is a telephone register > program. The serial cable is connected to COM1 and the > /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf is setup with $_com1 =3D /dev/ttyS0 (ttyS0 ex= ists > in the dev folder). >=20 > Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. Though i worked ONLY ONCE! :) = The > developer of this particular dos program checked the serial port with > another dos program that tests if it works, and it did. Only in this > Telephone register program it doesn't work. >=20 > Could anyone point me out to the right direction or forum to ask for > help, or give me any ideas? >=20 Try the same program with dosbox http://www.dosbox.com/ I have found dosbox to have much better serial port control than dosemu= =2E =46or example, on one program I have, dosemu hangs trying to access the= =20 serial port, but dosbox works fine with it. On closer inspection, I discovered that dosemu tends to work ok with do= s=20 programs that use the serial fifo. For dos programs that do not use the= =20 fifo, dosemu fails. Kind Regards James -- 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