Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 07:36:56 +0100 From: Rob <robert@irrelevant.com> To: Dale Walker - Manager <dale@icr.com.au>, "sysadmin@mfn.org" <sysadmin@mfn.org> Cc: " >, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>" Subject: Re: printer on terminal on modem Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980715073656.00a323b0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199807132117.HAA07414@sparc.icr.com.au> References: <Your message of "Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:03:58 %2B0100." <01BDAEA1.C1B0D080@noc.mfn.org>
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> >>I have been told that this terminal *does* respond properly by other > >yeah... apparently this one was working perfectly on a SCO openserver5 box, until recently... in order to rationalise internet services (we are the customer's provider) we recommended using FreeBSD boxes all around (approx 10 offices) with web caching, etc... and remote login to the SCO production server in a differnet town. One of their users has a wy60 with a modem and attaches to the brach to print reports,etc... (we weren't actually made aware of this until aprox 6months after installation) :-(...... anyway, we currently have the scenario of "well it used to work OK! fix it!" > >so from this I'm running with the assumption that the terminal is OK, as it had worked previously..... (I'm testing with a physically differnet termainl and printer,etc) > I had to set up a wyse-50 with a serial printer on a modem once, albeit to BOS not FBSD. It was a pig. I'm note sure about the -60, but the -50 would only work on hardware handshake to the printer, and needed a customised cable because the handshake pin it watched wasn't the same as the one the printer used. This might be something to check on yours. I found a mini-tester (box with lights) in line with the cable was dead handy for watching the handshake lines go up and down and hopefully seeing data stop and start in time. You also need to ensure that the modem and terminal and server and terminal are all set to the same handshake model, and that if you are using soft flow control for this, that you are not passing the xon/xoff characters down the link as well. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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