Re: usbserial/printer

2011-04-19 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
I don't know how much stupid I am... but I included the the original printer cable and it printed... as if the printer serial cable was a null modem... thank you all... sorry about the noisy... 2011/4/19 Leonardo Ruoso > I did bought a new usbserial, another brand, they didn't have the serial >

Re: usbserial/printer

2011-04-19 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
I did bought a new usbserial, another brand, they didn't have the serial tester at my local store, same thing. The serial printer works fine when connected to the serial port, but doesn't work when connected to the usbserial. Now it's a Clone one... It has the bMaxPacketSize = 64 which I read ind

Re: usbserial/printer

2011-04-18 Thread briand
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:33:27 + Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > Yes, sure! > > But I'm trying just to cat file.txt > /dev/ttyUSB0 but nothing > happens if I plug the printer directly to the onboard serial, > then the content of the file is printed when I do cat file.txt > > /dev/ttyS0! > > yur

Re: usbserial/printer

2011-04-18 Thread briand
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:33:27 + Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > Yes, sure! > > But I'm trying just to cat file.txt > /dev/ttyUSB0 but nothing > happens if I plug the printer directly to the onboard serial, > then the content of the file is printed when I do cat file.txt > > /dev/ttyS0! > man s

Re: usbserial/printer

2011-04-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Leonardo Ruoso put forth on 4/18/2011 8:34 PM: > I have a computer without the old rs232, it's like a netbook, but it's > running lenny. I need to plug a termal serial printer to it. usb to serial > adapter (prolific chip) should be okay, but didn't work. When back at home, > just plugged the print

Re: usbserial/printer

2011-04-18 Thread briand
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:33:27 + Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > Yes, sure! > > But I'm trying just to cat file.txt > /dev/ttyUSB0 but nothing > happens if I plug the printer directly to the onboard serial, > then the content of the file is printed when I do cat file.txt > > /dev/ttyS0! > you s

Re: usbserial/printer

2011-04-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
shawn wilson put forth on 4/18/2011 9:35 PM: > You could also get a print server like an HP jetdirect and print to the > server's ip. HP does not sell an external ethernet to serial print server, only ethernet to parallel. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: usbserial/printer

2011-04-18 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 18, 2011 10:16 PM, wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:34:37 + > Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > > > I have a computer without the old rs232, it's like a netbook, but it's > > running lenny. I need to plug a termal serial printer to it. usb to > > serial adapter (prolific chip) should be okay, b

Re: usbserial/printer

2011-04-18 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
Yes, sure! But I'm trying just to cat file.txt > /dev/ttyUSB0 but nothing happens if I plug the printer directly to the onboard serial, then the content of the file is printed when I do cat file.txt > /dev/ttyS0! 2011/4/19 > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:34:37 + > Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > > >

Re: usbserial/printer

2011-04-18 Thread briand
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:34:37 + Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > I have a computer without the old rs232, it's like a netbook, but it's > running lenny. I need to plug a termal serial printer to it. usb to > serial adapter (prolific chip) should be okay, but didn't work. When > back at home, just plugg