After more research and more fooling around, I am now able to print from
FreeDOS to my network WiFi printer. Just to clarify a couple of points - my
FreeDOS PC is connected to my home network through an ethernet cable to my
router. My free-standing laser printer is connected to my home network
thro
Hi Marv!
So you have a serial port on your DOS PC and on your Windows PC,
a network-only printer and maybe, or maybe not a LPT1 port on the
DOS PC (physically). To print directly over the network, you can
try some trickery with netcat. Some printers might also create a
built-in website which let
Since I don’t have a printer with a parallel port, I’ve been redirecting
LPT1 to COM1, which is connected to my Windows 10 PC at 115200 baud. Using
a terminal program, I capture what I want to a file that I can either print
or save on my Windows 10 PC. Clunky, but it works. It even works ok for
som
On 2014-04-06 09:18 (GMT+0200) Graham composed:
> I appreciate this may have been asked before but I can't find the
> answer in the archives. I have a bootable USB stick with FREEDOS on.
> My PC has no parallel or serial port, only USB, wi-fi and Ethernet.
> How do I print? Thanks
Do you have a p
You will need a driver or bios that supports legacy mode that converts lptx
port writes to specified usb port/packet address the printer is on.
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I appreciate this may have been asked before but I can't find the
answer in the archives. I have a bootable USB stick with FREEDOS on.
My PC has no parallel or serial port, only USB, wi-fi and Ethernet.
How do I print? Thanks
Hi,
I've installed Freedos on Microsoft Virtual PC and tried print in freedos
through lpt1.
I read on the web that LPT1 can be redirected to a printer share by using
net use lpt1:
The problem that on the printer queue in XP i always get a job called "local
downlevel document"
and nothing is pr
