From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 21: 4:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB6737B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:04:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F5F43E88 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:04:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.2/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id gAF54IiS009355 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:04:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H5LQ3600.00U for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:04:18 -0800 Message-ID: <3DD4804C.7060306@mac.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:04:12 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021107 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions Subject: Re: serial printing to old inkjet (stylewriter) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: > > >>OK, I've looked into that and set the br value to be 57600. > > > It probably can't go that fast. Try 9600 baud first, then 19200. > Unless Apple was still totally nuts back then, it should also be 8N1, > but who knows? Turn the printer off between tests to clear the buffer. Nope, it is 57600: I know that much about it. And I did get some output from another BSD machine here. I think this laptop must have issues of some kind. And the buffer gets cleared regularly as the printer resets: the driver works just fine for that ;-) -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ AMAZING BUT TRUE ... There is so much sand in Northern Africa that if it were spread out it would completely cover the Sahara Desert. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message