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From: janm@dramba.neis.oz (Jan Mikkelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: connecting printer to Digiboard on Magnum
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.225756.5581@dramba.neis.oz>
Date: 26 Apr 91 22:57:56 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.224647.10196@groucho>
Organization: Dramba Holdings, Lindfield, Australia
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In article <1991Apr24.224647.10196@groucho> pbickers@tamaluit (Paul Bickerstaff) writes:
>I'd very much appreciate hearing from anybody who has successfully
>connected a serial printer to one of the digiboard ports on a Magnum
>3000.  I've tried both lpr and lpsched but can't get anything to work.
>The documentation is  not very helpful; the bsd documentation
>particularly so.  

We have it working on our Magnums.  For lpsched the interface script needs
to be modified to do a stty to get the line right.

>I'm assuming that the (16-port) Digiboard P1 translates to ttyd0. Do I
>need to alter the inittab entry for a printer? 

Just make sure that there is no getty running on the printer port.

Of course your problem could be different from the one we have; nothing
can be done in various ways.  If you want the interface script from
our system, I can email it to you.


-- 
Jan Mikkelsen
janm@dramba.neis.oz.AU or janm%dramba.neis.oz@metro.ucc.su.oz.au
"She really is."