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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news1.oakland.edu!vtc.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!wang!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.bluesky.net!news.sprintlink.net!neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!not-for-mail From: burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Serial Printer Problem Date: 16 Jun 1995 17:59:01 -0500 Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3rt2bl$9p2@cynjut.neonramp.com> References: <3reukv$72p@gnu.mat.uc.pt> <3rjivj$s16@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynjut.neonramp.com In article <3rjivj$s16@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >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. There is also a description of how to do it using a serial laser printer in the 386BSD, etal FAQ. -- Dave Burgess (The man of a thousand E-Mail addresses) 386bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom "Just because something is stupid doesn't mean that there isn't someone that wants to do it...."