sounds like you have Red Hat 6.0. I don't know why but they included a
developer release of Dosemu. Remove the package and install 98.8. That
will probably solve the problem however, I had 99.10 working with COM1.
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Michael B. wrote:
>
> help! I can't get COM1 to work correctly for programs
> running in dosemu.
>
> I'm currently using dosemu 0.99.10.0 to run a proprietary
> communication / file-transfer application program.
>
> I've gotten dosemu to fire-up and the communication app to
> run... except that it cannot talk to the external modem
> that is connected to COM1.
>
> I have tried COM2. that does not work either.
>
> I have tried:
> 1) $_com1 = "/dev/cua0"
>
> 2) $_com1 = "/dev/cua1"
>
> 3) $_com1 = "/dev/cua2"
>
> I also tried "/dev/ttyS[012]".
>
> And I also tried with $_com2.
>
> I have tried:
>
> $_ports = "range 0x3f8,(0x3f8+7)"
>
> I also tried:
>
> $_irqpassing = "4"
>
> And a very large assortment of all of the above. Nothing
> I tried worked. Has anyone done this before and actually
> gotten the application to talk to a COM port?
>
