Re: Diagnosing serial ports

2002-06-15 Thread nate
> I'm beginning to wonder if some other process has locked up the serial > port (although fuser -v /dev/ttyS1 shows nothing) or if I'm missing some > module or kernel option. I know this is speculative, but if anyone's got > an idea I'd be very grateful. > > This is woody running custom-built ke

Diagnosing serial ports

2002-06-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
This is a followup to yesterday's attempt to get a CoStar Labelwriter XL working under linux. I plugged the thing into a windows laptop and it printed fine, so the problem is not in the printer. If I start statserial, point it at /dev/ttyS1, and plug/unplug the printer from the computer, the CTS/