On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:42, Matthew Davidson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get a DOS app that requires a parallel port dongle to work with Debian > unstable, and am hoping someone on the list has some experience with this. It's an > in-house app that has very little documentation to speak of, so I'm in the dark > somewhat on that side of things. > > The app wil run, so there's no problem with dosemu/freedos per se (and I've got it > running old games at home with no problem), but it doesn't work. It's supposed to > talk to other machines via the serial port which I have configured in dosemu.conf > like so:
So, the parallel "dongle" is a copy-protection device or something, but it talks to other boxes on the serial port? If that is the case (that it needs to use both the parallel and serial ports), I'd start by figuring out if it is the parallel or serial port with the problem. Are you able to use qmodem or similar to communicate with a modem or something from this dosbox session? The most likely problem is permissions -- does it work if you run dosbox as root? j. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
