RE: how to diagnose serial channel issues

["Steve Poling" <sdp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adam,
thanks. i got the Apple laserwriter working just fine. i even got Samba
configured ok. this let me take my old 386/33 win95 spooler offline.

thanx again,

steve

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam [mailto:adam@morrison.iserv.net]
>Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 10:41 AM
>To: klug@klug.armintl.com
>Subject: re: how to diagnose serial channel issues
>
>
>>i've got an Apple laser printer. It is attached to /dev/cua0 (com1). i've
>>got it talking to the printer using the RedHat Printtool. that's nice.
>>i tell the printtool to send postscript to the device, i look over and i see
>>the green LED flash telling me the data is getting out.
>>I don't see any print output, and that tells me the data is getting
>>corrupted somehow.
>
>My printcap entry for a serial laser (a IBM 4039) looks like so
>
>cmtps:\
>        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/cmtps:\
>        :mx#0:\
>        :sh:\
>        :lp=/dev/cua0:\
>        :br#19200:
>
>
>I've never met a serial printer that wasn't 8bits, 1 stop bit, no parity
>so I've never messed with any of that.  the br# sets the baud rate.  I
>don't know of a way to determine the baude rate other than documentation
>or someway it is set physically on the printer,  via dip switches or
>LCD/LED menu.
>
>