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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Serial Printer Problem
Date: 13 Jun 1995 10:41:23 +0200
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Paulo Menezes <paulo@centauro> wrote:
^^^^^^^^^
[Your news software is misconfigured; the domain info is missing.]
>I have a LaserJet 4 attatched to one of the serial ports.
>I have an entry in printcap setting the baudrate and some flags but
>it seems to ignore them. To make it work I have to send the file using
>the lpr command and after I have to issue an "stty -f /dev/ttyd0 38400 ixon clocal".
>
>Is this a bug ?
Perhaps. Anyway, i think other people are working well with serial
printers.
You do not perchance have a getty running on ttyd0?
If all else fails, you could try to work around the problem with the
initial and lock-style devices (/dev/ttyid0 and /dev/ttyld0) along
with the /etc/rc.serial script. See the man page for sio(4) for a
description.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
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