cks@white.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) (08/29/89)
I'm trying to set up a simple 9600 baud direct-connect line from the
tty03 ss port on a Vaxstation 2000 to a new PostScript LN03R laser
printer so I can try and scope out what options and suchlike it needs
(and see any error messages the printer is generating). Unfortunately,
tip(1) and cu(1) have been giving me a lot of grief; nothing I try in
/etc/remote seems to work (even the example in the Transcript
documentation bombs out). The port itself appears fine; if I connect
up a dumb terminal and cat stuff out, it appears correctly.
So, does anyone either a) have a working direct-connect entry, b)
have a SIMPLE, DUMB cu/tip/whatever program that won't try to outguess
me, c) have a working Transcript 2.1 setup they can share or d) see
anything wrong with the following /etc/remote entry?
# talk to the printer...
whlw1|direct|PostScript:\
:el=^C^D^S^Q^U:br#9600:dv=/dev/tty03:pn=:
Thanks in advance; please email me any advice and I'll post a summary.
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Chris Siebenmann ...!utgpu!{ncrcan,ontmoh!moore}!ziebmef!cks
cks@white.toronto.edu or ...!utgpu!{,csri!}ckscks@white.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) (08/30/89)
Well, thanks to some people and some carefull reading of manpages and
kernel rebuilding, I managed to both get a direct connection working
with tip and get the printer to print.
My problems with tip were caused by port permissions; the port tip
will run on has to be owned by uucp, even if you're tip-ing out as
root. If it isn't, tip fails with the ever-so-helpful "all ports busy"
error message.
The printer finally started working after I looked at the diskless
client kernel config file and rebuilt it with a "flags 0x0f" entry on
the ss device line. I'm surprised this isn't standard, given that DEC
says you have to do it that way in the ss(4) manpage.
Send email if you want either the /etc/printcap entry I ended up with
or my direct-connect /etc/remote entry.
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