17.2. Older serial printers that drop characters
17.2. Older serial printers that drop characters
Jon Luckey points out that some older serial printers with
ten-cent serial interfaces and small buffersreally mean stop when they say so with flow
control. He found that disabling the FIFO in his Linux box's
16550 serial port with
setserial
corrected the problem of dropped
characters (you apparently just specify the UART type as an 8250
to do this).