From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 12:35:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B77037BB03 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:35:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost.fedde.littleton.co.us [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta10) with ESMTP id e2AKZQm75751; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:35:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003102035.e2AKZQm75751@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "John Stevens" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Chris Fedde Subject: Re: Serial Printers In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:09:24 +1100." <022401bf8a4e$ce487340$8c00a8c0@david> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:35:26 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "John Stevens" writes: +--------------- | | I have a serial printer connected to com3 which loses characters after = | a few pages, the printer | supports both hardware(DTR) and software(XON/XOFF) flow control, how = | do I configure FreeBSD(3.2) to overcome this problem. | | Regards Tobyone +--------------- Set the flow control parameters for the device file in one of the boot scripts using the stty(1) command: stty -f /dev/ttyd7 crtscts ixon This can also be set using :ms=crtscts,ixon: in the printers /etc/printcap entry. good luck chris __ Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message