So far, "dmesg" has always said that I am using the generic driver, "only for testing and one off purposes". And I have already gone into Synaptic and downloaded everything that looked promising.
On 21 December 2017 at 13:07, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Peter Vollan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> TS-DOS. I have a REXX installed. >> Now I am just getting "drive not ready", I have tried LaddieAlpha as well >> as dl. >> When I declared victory, I had just sent a small text file from the >> m100 to the linux laptop. So it did work, briefly. >> > > I believe drive not ready implies a problem on the "cable check" DSR/DTR > line. > > Maybe the cable is not full null or not fully plugged in. Or maybe the > DTR/DSR pin/signal has failed on the adapter or your M100. > > Another possibility is to run a patched version of TS-DOS which does not > check DSR/DTR. My personal opinion is that the DSR check is the dumbest > thing ever, so if you can disable it, do. But not everyone agrees with me. > > The only problem there is finding a patched version. > > If you make your own cable you can always loop back DTR to DSR at the M100 > end of the cable solving the problem forever. > > -- John.
