Hi all. I'm new to this ml, and first of all I want to thank the authors of dosemu and the entire community for the nice work done.
I'm using dosemu for several months and lately I had a problem with a parallel printer which doesn't want to print at all. There are no problems under GNU/Linux: I use lpr on Debian Woody and it prints nicely. dosemu (version 1.0.2.1 packaged for Debian Woody, package revision 7) runs MS-DOS 6.22 and the program I use just talks to a dot-matrix printer which supports the IBM ProPrintIII protocol. I already tuned-up many times this boxes under various hardware configurations, and the printer never needed particular configurations (i.e. the $_ports entry in dosemu.conf was always empty). This time I played with the values in dosemu.conf, according to the BIOS settings and the /proc/ioports entries about the parallel port, but nothing happens. I also played with the kernel (a vanilla 2.4.20 from kernel.org) parport section many times, and it seems to be ok. I can print text files both with lpr and echo-ing on /dev/lp0. My current dosemu parameters are: $_printer = "lp" # which is properly configured in /etc/printcap $_printer_timeout = (20) $_ports = "device /dev/lp0 fast range 0x378 0x37f" That's the output of # cat /proc/ioports | grep parport 0378-037a : parport0 037b-037f : parport0 They are perfectly matching the BIOS settings (the mobo is an Asus P4B533, which I suppose have a standard BIOS). I tried to restrict the range to 0x378-0x37a in the BIOS: /proc/ioports was ok, lpr worked fine, but dosemu doesn't. It seems to be a dosemu (or perhaps MS-DOS) problem, because also doing a "copy config.sys lpt1" at the dos prompt it doesn't print. Of course, lpd is up and running. Any help, hint or link would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Samuele Catusian http://studenti.ing.unipi.it/~s244797/ -o) ,''`. /\ : :' : _\_V `. `' Debian GNU/Linux: when you have to do other `- important things than fixing a system. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
