Thanks to:
canuck@masc38.rice.edu (Mike Pearlman)
Mike Raffety <miker@il.us.swissbank.com>
John Valdes <valdes@geosun.uchicago.edu>
All of whom were on the right track with the printer problem I
asked about The original probelm:
> We have just upgraded a 3/160 from 4.03 to 4.1.1
>
> We have 5 Epson Printers (various flavors of FX-) attatched
> to an ALM-2 board.
>
> under 4.03 we used the following line in printcaps to get
> the system to respond to START/STOP from the printers
>
> ms=-tabs, -parity ixon
>
> following the upgrade, the printers exhibit the following
> behavior:
>
> After printing the equivalent of 3 - 3 1/2 pages of solid
> text, the printer stops, however all seems normal when
> its status is checked and jobs remain in the print queue
>
> If the printer is taken off line and then put back on line
> with the printer control switch, the jobs resumes printing
> until another 3 - 3 1/2 pages of text has been printed.
> no data is lost.
John Valdes even correctly noticed that I had referred to an
ALM-2 when I meant an ALM-1.
At any rate the following patch fixed our problems:
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Patch-ID# 100137-01
Keywords:
Synopsis: ALM flow control patch
Date: 09/Aug/90
SunOS release: 4.1
Unbundled Product:
Unbundled Release:
Topic:
BugId's fixed with this patch: 1044721
Architectures for which this patch is available: sun3
Obsoleted by:
Problem Description:
This patch corrects the behavior described in Sun Bug No. 1044721.
Systems running SunOS 4.1 with ALM (Systech MTI) boards can experience
flow control problems on these serial ports. The system will not
recognize an incoming XON character after receiving an XOFF character,
which causes the port to appear frozen. Typing ^S^Q will reenable
output.
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It turned out that we we also having trouble on four serial
ports that have connections to a University maintained modem
swith. This was fixed with the following patch.
____________________________________________________________________
Patch-ID# 100315-01
Keywords: serial ports soft_Carrier HUPCL DTR last_close
Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.1:serial ports with soft Carrier & HUPCL not dropping DTR on
last close
Date: 12/June/91
SunOS RELEASE: 4.1.1
Topic: tty drop DTR patch
BugID's fixed with this patch: 1056787
Architectures for which this patch is available: sun3, sun3x, sun4, sun4c
Patches which may conflict with this patch: 100188-01 100225-02. This patch
has the fixes for in both 100188-01 and 100225-02.
Obsolete By:
Problem Description:
BUGID: 1056787
Serial ports with software carrier and HUPCL do not drop DTR upon
last close. This behaviour was changed in Sun OS 4.1.1 relative
to previous releases.
___________________________________________________________________
As those who believed I knew what I was talking about when I identified
the card as an ALM-2 pointed out, the Jumbo tty patch addresses
this behavior with the ALM-2:
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Patch-ID# 100513-02
Keywords: ALM2, serial port, hangs, printer hangs, XON, XOFF, TIOCCONS re-direct
ion security console pty dialin dialout drops DTR NULL, panic Bad Trap TIOCSTI
Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.1;4.1.2;4.1.3: Jumbo tty patch
Date: 02/Dec/92
SunOS release: 4.1 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3
Unbundled Product:
Unbundled Release:
Topic: Jumbo tty patch
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Thanks for the help, are printers and dialin lines are now once again
funcioning normally.
Jim Morrison
School of Veterinary Medicine
Purdue University
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