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Hi,

i have a lot of trouble getting my QMS 410 to work with my Sun IPX
under Solaris over a serial port. Anybody out there, who got a
similar setup to work?

I have the printer hooked up to /dev/term/b, set the printer to 19200 baud
(i tried 9600 baud too), set the stty options with lpadmin etc. I checked
the cable, it's ok and supports hardware flow controll (build according
the IPX Answerbook pages). But i can't get rid of handshaking problems:
When i print a document longer than 1 page, the jobs hangs after a few
pages. Can somebody enlight me, how to set the eeprom settings of the
serial ports, the stty options with lpadmin and the serial line characteristics
on the printer ?

Thanks a lot, Jan

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Jan G. Timm      System Administration - Computational Linguistics
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: i have a lot of trouble getting my QMS 410 to work with my Sun IPX
: under Solaris over a serial port. Anybody out there, who got a
: similar setup to work?

I've been working on the same setup - an LZR 960 laserprinter to the serial
port of a Sparc IPX.

After much fiddling it seems that 9600 baud with XON/XOFF flow control
works OK. Although to get even this far I removed the port monitor (pmadm)
for /dev/term/a. I'm not convinced this is necessary, though.

The problem I'm having now is that if I change the printer to postscript via:
lpadmin -p lp_dp -T PS
lpadmin -p lp_dp -I PS
it refuses to send anymore jobs to the printer port.

Also I'm using a vt100 terminal in place of the printer for debugging -
its helpful and saves paper.

Don Park
Systems Admin.
Protocol Systems