Subject: Re: NetBSD and Apple Laserwriter II NTX printers
To: None <astaude@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 11/27/1997 11:57:37
Hello,
> The "ms=crtscts,evenp,-ixon" entry is supposed to be setting flow control
yes. But look closer at your printer handbook.
What we, nowadays, do is:
cts tells the computer or peripheral it may send
rts tells the modem it may send.
For a nullmodem-cable, we cross-connect cts to other rts, and rts to other cts.
For all Apple Laserwriters I have known, they don't do this, but rather
something alongside the original definition of the bits, with
4-wire-handshaking:
Outward direction:
rts tells the cable the computer/peripheral wants to send, cts tells it it
may send.
Inward direction: is done using DSR/DTR signals:
DTR tells the modem the peripheral is "ready".
You need to connect your computers "cts" signal to the printers "dtr" to
make handshaking work, (and 7-7 for signal ground, and 2-3 / 3-2 for the
data).
Somebody please add this to same faq.
Regards,
Ignatios Souvatzis