Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:56:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Dale Walker - Manager <dale@icr.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printer on terminal on modem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980713125557.25570I-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199807120916.TAA01384@sparc.icr.com.au>
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On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Dale Walker - Manager wrote: > I have successfully setup a serial printer attached to a Wyse-60 > terminal which in turn was connected to a serial port of a FreeBSD box. > Everything works perfectly, the printer interface script locks the > terminal keyboard, and dumps the data out the AUX port, then unlocks the > keyboard, etc..etc... > > However, now the terminal is being used at a remote location and is > attached to a modem. The answering modem is attached straight to a > serial port on the FreeBSD box. > > The Problem: After approx 15 lines or so of printer output the output > gets garbled... sometimes it overwrites or staircases, sometimes the > text is repeated. My first thoughts were on flow control, but I'm a bit > unsure as to how to tackle it. I have tried some different fs and xs > settings in the printcap file, however they seemed to have little to no > effect. Does the terminal's and the modem's flow control settings match? That's what's important. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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