Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Natex MUXes. It works [..] VS Solution 2. Using an existing networked FreeBSD box sitting next to VS the MUX, it already has COM ports. Advantage: cheap, no additional ok. no interactivity. But I'm still optimistic about virtualization. emulators/qemu at the least should be able to run

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-04 Thread Victor Sudakov
has COM ports. Advantage: cheap, no additional rack space and power. Disadvantage: doubts if this solution is feasible, especially on the Windows side. A minicom or any other interactive terminal emulation software is out of the question. The MUX managing software uses its own protocol over RS323

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-04 Thread Victor Sudakov
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: In fact, the question is whether there is a standards compliant (not written for some proprietary hardware terminal server protocol) driver for Windows. Not exactly a FreeBSD question, I know :) Finding a Windows driver that will work with an existing

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Peter Boosten
On 3-9-2012 5:02, Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc but

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Eric Masson
Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su writes: Hi, There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? Yes, sredird on the FreeBSD box NetDialout from PCMicro on the

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread perryh
Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: On 3-9-2012 5:02, Victor Sudakov wrote: There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? If I understand your question correctly, then AFAICT the only way to access serial ports over the

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? If I understand your question correctly, then AFAICT the only way to access serial ports over the network is with a piece of additional

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
Eric Masson wrote: There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? Yes, sredird on the FreeBSD box NetDialout from PCMicro on the Windows box. Oh,

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:02:17 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? There is some software like

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
Polytropon wrote: There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc but are there any

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Peter Vereshagin
? VS At least it has an example of an RFC 2217 client (COM port to TCP VS redirector) in its README file. Thanks again, will look at it. From what I remember the os/2 smb protocol implementation could share COM ports as easily as LPT ports for printers. I can't remind though if this was for 'printer

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread perryh
Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su wrote: In fact, the question is whether there is a standards compliant (not written for some proprietary hardware terminal server protocol) driver for Windows. Not exactly a FreeBSD question, I know :) Finding a Windows driver that will work with an

Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-02 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc but are there any (freeware) Windows virtual

rescan com ports

2010-08-04 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello guys, my system: 8.0-release i386 my question: Is there a way to manually rescan the com devices ? reason: yesterday I added a USR external modem on one com port and the system did not detect it until a reboot. Is this normal ? btw, is there a way to manually detect newly added hardware ?

dosbox and com ports

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Maness
has played with com ports. Thanks, Chris KQ6UP ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Can't detect COM ports...

2004-08-20 Thread JJB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:15:02 +0300, Ajesh John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, I have got a problem with my HS56 PCTel modem because I can not enable my serial ports. The first two ports are automatically enabled, but the third and the fourth does not get enabled.

Re: Can't detect COM ports...

2004-08-18 Thread Ajesh John
Hi, I'm sorry. I forgot to include this. I have an internal modem. And I'm using FreeBSD 5.1. There are only 2 cuaa devices in the /dev directory(cuaa1 and cuaa2). Are my ports detected correctly or is it my modem that is not detected?, - Ajesh On Sun, 15 Aug 2004

Can't detect COM ports...

2004-08-15 Thread Ajesh John
Hi, I have got a problem with my HS56 PCTel modem because I can not enable my serial ports. The first two ports are automatically enabled, but the third and the fourth does not get enabled. I read the handbook and tried to do it myself, but without success. I have connected the modem to

RE: Can't detect COM ports...

2004-08-15 Thread JJB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have got a problem with my HS56 PCTel modem because I can not enable my serial ports. The first two ports are automatically enabled, but the third and the fourth does not get enabled. I read the handbook and tried to do it myself, but without success. I

Re: Can't detect COM ports...

2004-08-15 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: I have got a problem with my HS56 PCTel modem because I can not enable my serial ports. The first two ports are automatically enabled, but the third and the fourth does not get enabled. I read the handbook and tried to do it myself, but without success. I have connected the modem to

com ports in freebsd

2004-02-11 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I have a question about how FreeBSD handles the serial ports. After messing around for 2 days, I finally got my PCMCIA modem working on my laptop. All I really had to do was to cd /dev/ ./MAKEDEV cuaa4 I did this because dmesg kept reporting the Megahertz modem at sio4. What I don't

Re: com ports in freebsd

2004-02-11 Thread Eric F Crist
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 01:23 pm, Duane Winner wrote: Hello, I have a question about how FreeBSD handles the serial ports. After messing around for 2 days, I finally got my PCMCIA modem working on my laptop. All I really had to do was to cd /dev/ ./MAKEDEV cuaa4 I did this because

Re: COM ports

2003-09-14 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:29:44AM -0700, Claudiu Bichir wrote: Hy folks ! I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed on my computer and I wanted to know how can I enable the COM3 COM4 ports. The ports are disabled by default in 5.0. I tried to modify /boot/device.hints but with no hope . I commented

COM ports

2003-09-11 Thread Claudiu Bichir
Hy folks ! I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed on my computer and I wanted to know how can I enable the COM3 COM4 ports. The ports are disabled by default in 5.0. I tried to modify /boot/device.hints but with no hope . I commented hint.sio.2.disabled=1 and hint.sio.3.disabled=1 out but when I rebooted