martin@iris.ucdavis.edu (Bruce K. Martin Jr.) (09/23/87)
I'm trying to get lpr to talk to an old DecWriter III that we have hooked
to the IBM PC on serial port one (COM1: in MS-DOS).
The DecWriter is set up to run at 1200 baud, 8 bits ,etc. When I fire
up lpr (or just cat to /dev/lp), I get "Printer out of paper." from the
device driver (../kernel/printer.c).
My guess is that this is becuase the uart in the pc is not set up to
run at 1200 baud. How can this be fixed? Or is this even the problem?
What does MINIX expect to see at the other end of the port?
...bruce
Bruce K. Martin Jr, UC Davis Div. of Computer Science
martin@iris.ucdavis.edu --or-- {ucbvax | lll-crg}!ucdavis!iris!martinjacob6@ntvax.UUCP (03/18/88)
Hi Ken,
We are on the same boat, Iam also pretty new to the Minix,
and Iam getting the same problem "printer errror". Also I
have noticed the printer doesn't come to off line at all.
All I can think of is, there should be some way to set up the
printer from "MINIX" before routing any file to it. This
is true with UNIX system V, whenever I change printer in my
3B2/400 I have to do the printer set up. That is why Iam
thinking there may something like that, I guess we need to
find out the corresponding documentation. If I know some thing
I will let you know and vice versa.
Bye
-Jey
North Texas State University,
Denton, Texas 76201.
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