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DB25 printers to pc [closed]
If computer has a single parallel port then how can I connect three paralel printers on this pc ? Print Server seems a solution but seems expensive.However these printers might be far away.Is there ...
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How to connect a Mac laptop to a server via the serial port?
I'm a applications guy trying to set up a Dell c6100 server that doesn't boot. We'll have physical access tomorrow.
The box has a serial connector for console access. We'll have a MAC laptop. Are ...
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Getting VM on ESXi to use COM ports on local (thin?) client
Setup:
WinXP VM on ESXi v4.1 infrastructure system, accessible via vSphere thick client and RDP
WinXP client (i.e. my laptop) with a device connected to the serial port
How do I get the VM to talk ...
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Computer and cash register [closed]
I have a cash register I need to communicate with my pc in order to load imformation to the cash register. The cash register comes with a Baude rate number. How do I link up the two?
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Powervault MD circular console cable
We have two Powervault MD SAS devices, the specific model eludes me as these are remote and not accessible to me and anyone on-site doesn't have the capability to locate a service tag/serial or model ...
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windows 2003 - why can't serial port be accessed remotely?
we have recently (foolishly) installed the updates on some of our servers, which have a bit of hardware attached via USB that presents itself as a serial (COM) port.
The strange behaviour is that if ...
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How to redirect a Hyper-V COM port named pipe to a file?
I would like to redirect the serial port output on RedHat 5.7 to some recordable or reviewable medium.
The normal way to do this on a physical machine is to add the console parameters to the kernel ...
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Windows 7 Print Spooler keeps serial ports locked also when stopped
I have a program (environment is Windows 7 Enterprise 32bit) that scans available serial ports to detect a specific device.
But on many machines a printer driver is configured on one of the serial ...
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Debian Squeeze guest running under KVM, how to get serial?
I've just got it running on Ubuntu, have installed everything but the kitchen sink.
Got virt-console, virt-manager, running debian Squeeze, everything works.
But... I don't want to connect via vnc. ...
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RDP ts port redirection
I have 2 pairs of serial devices (a scale and a POS pin pad) hooked up to 2 pcs (4 serial devices in total) with windows xp embedded sp3 (x86) running RDC/rdp 6.0. I am using those machines to RDP ...
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DTE & DCE advice
I am just wondering what the meain differences are between these two and do they need to have different clock rates.
I am right in thinking that if I was linking two routers together via serial I ...
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Serial to ethernet cable: how to connect to device
How can I use a serial to ethernet cable to connect to a device: in my case a
Hp ProCurve AP?
A serial to USB or serial to serial would have been great but I found this serial
to ethernet cable from ...
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Virtual COM port to TCP server?
I've got a project that there's no budget for. Basically I need to get a null modem connection set up between our phone systems(physical servers running Win2K8 32b) and our new reporting ...
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How do I stop Windows from sending random data to serial port on startup and shutdown? [closed]
I have an Epson DM-D110 display pole connected to COM1. When Windows XP starts up and shuts down, a small bit of random character data is sent to the display pole. Some times it's the fish symbol, ...
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Serial Port (COM1) becomes unresponsive
Originally I made a POS application using Excel/VB. Everything worked A-OK, especially the serial communication with the POS display pole. Here's an example of the code by which I had the ...
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juniper j2300 console connection?
I've been given a Juniper Networks J2300 router, but I've never used a juniper device before and no idea where to begin on how to connect to the console of the device.
I have a serial to RJ45 cable ...
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Giving a new life to an old SPARC machine - boot and install related problems
My problem isn't one you encounter on a daily basis, yet I find interesting enough to share and ask for help. From the beginning: the academic scientific group I am a member of (we are focused on ...
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serial mouse detected on windows 2008 r2 server
I was hoping to find out how to stop windows 2008 server R2 64 bit from detecting a serial mouse on the com port. i know the boot.ini version with /noserialmouse....etc for earlier versions also i ...
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What's closing my port?
I've got some software that's running on Solaris 10 servers. We're using SunRays as the clients. The software uses the SunRay serial ports to communicate with some manufacturing equipment. At one ...
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How to fix customer display pole that displays garbage?
I have an Openbravo POS workstation with a customer display pole. The pole is VFD-860. When I click on the products on the Sales page of Openbravo, the display responds but displays garbage:
When I ...
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Connecting to a serial port/COM1 in Windows 7
I have an external device (running a small Linux-based OS) that I need to log in to via the Windows 7 command line. The device is connected to COM1 with a USB-to-serial cable. How do I do this without ...
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Closing a session on a Perle IOLAN
I am connecting to a serial port using a Perle IOLAN DS1.
I have noticed occasions when I have tried to log in and got an error message “line not available - press any key” which we think is due to ...
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Serial connection over a single USB cable (Windows to linux, or linux to linux)
I'm helping out with a project for an embedded device that only has USB and no serial. This device is running Linux.
These days, when we need to connect to a serial port on a device we typically use ...
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Fedora14 serial console how-to needed
Has anyone ever got a serial console working in fedora 14 ?
Is it as simple as adding to grub:
serial --unit=0 --speed=38400
terminal --timeout=10 serial console
and add to the kernel lines: ...
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Logging Serial port Data
Unless I'm missing something, there appears to be no simple way in *NIX to read from a serial port directly into a file
I had imagined something as simple as cat /dev/ttyX > file but apparently ...
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Com port redirection from Windows 7 to Windows Server 2008 R2
We use "Copy file.prn to \tsclient\com1" to print from a TS session to a locally attached serial printer.
This works fine from Windows XP, but when trying it from a Windows 7 client computer, we get ...
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Remote Linux Installation
i will try to install a Linux-System to a remote System where i dont have a Monitor or Keyboard. I can access the machine with ssh. I found following Document that describe a serial connection via ...
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how to remotely access a serial modem?
I have a serial modem connected to a computer running ubuntu. I can access it through ssh and modem is working great, I tested it using minicom.
How can I make a remote connection to this modem for ...
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Recommended way to wire a serial port on a server?
I need to connect some Dell servers to a WTI TSM-40 serial port console. The serial console uses RJ45 connectors, and the Dells have DB9. I have DB9-RJ45 adapters (the ones you can customize with ...
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XP to XP link with SLIP over serial - No IP address on host computer side?
I'm trying to set up a SLIP link using a serial connection between two XP computers. This is to test some specialized communications hardware that only supports IP via SLIP.
As a starting point, I'm ...
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how to connect to a switch connected to serial port
My computer and switch both are connected to network. I need to connect to the console port of switch via serial port on my computer. I am using ubuntu.
How can I do that? How do I know whats the ...
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Where is the source code that implements the driver for /dev/ttyS0 serial port in Red Hat?
I am trying to debug a problem with a device attached to /dev/ttyS0 on a workstation running RHEL 5. Using my relatively basic Linux knowledge, I can not seem to figure out where to look for the ...
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Are serial-to-ethernet adapters interchangeable?
I need to get data from a serial device (a weather station) over our network where it'll be processed by a Unix host (using custom software). I was able to compile remserial which makes the remote ...
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Serial port forwarding over TCP/IP (linux server)
I am looking for a way to use a remote serial port on a linux machine over LAN. The machine is running ubuntu 10.04 and I have a arduino board connected to it, that I would like to be able to ...
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How do I connect to the serial console port os a Sunfire 280R?
We have a Sunfire 280R (old SPARC/Solaris server) that is refusing to come up after being relocated. We're trying to connect to the serial console port, but all we get is random gibberish on the ...
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VirtualBox serial port, limit of two?
Using VirtualBox, Is there a limit of two serial ports per VM? I'm currently engaging in a task that requires more than two, but less than or equal to four ports. I'm at a loss of what to do to get ...
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Remapping Linux serial port device names
I have a server running Debian Linux which has a built in serial port which is coming up as ttyS0. I have a plug in PCI card with two serial ports that are being registered with Linux as ttyS2 and ...
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Capturing XEN Dom0 logs on Debian lenny?
I have a Dell server with Xen 3.2 (from Debian Lenny) running a Debian Lenny dom0.
Since I am facing unexpected reboot without any clue in the debian logs, I would like to capture the Xen dom0 logs.
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How to set up a serial connection to a Windows 7 computer
I need to set up a "dial in" connection to a Windows 7 (Ultimate) computer via a serial null-modem cable to be able to connect from a Windows XP client to that computer and exchange data over IP.
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How to power a serial port under linux?
I got a serial to ethernet device connected to a Serial (COM) port on a Linux machine (debian etch), I connected it correctly but it did not power up, I suppose I need to power the device port, anyone ...
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Get files from serial port SSH shell
My webserver networking is down. I can open a shell over SSH using serial port.
I need to download 2 files (an sql dump and a backup of the entire website: aprox 3GB).
To open the shell I must to ...
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Getting something out of an old Digi ST-1032
I'm trying to update a setup of a shipping and packaging unit, that makes use of two Digi ST-1032 'Terminal Server' units. I find it a strange name for the devices, but pre-the-nineties it apparently ...
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Is it possible to reset FTDI virtual com ports enumeration, we easily get hundreds of COM ports in production environment
When producing devices that use a FTDI USB to serial chip to communicate with a Windows host, we get hundreds of COM-ports, since Windows seems to just increase the port number each time a new FTDI ...
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What is a a good serial-to-USB adapter?
Serial ports on devices are still used for many things, especially on network devices. However, most modern laptops no longer have serial (aka "COM") ports.
So what I'm curious about is: what is a ...
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How to configure MODBUS on a Cyclades TS100?
I have a Cyclades TS100 which is used to communicate with a Modbus Slave. I selected Protocol: Modbus and configured MODBUS Serial Mode: RTU
The thing is, I event don't get a connection to the Serial ...
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Is there a VM to map a legacy app's serial resources onto modern hardware?
We have inherited a legacy application which runs under DOS 6.2 and the Phar-Lap DOS extender (if anyone is old enough to remember that). It also uses up to 6 serial ports (16550) which are expected ...
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SLIP Connections in Windows 7
I'm looking for a way to set up a SLIP connection in Windows 7. I found these instructions for setting it up under Windows XP, but I can't seem to figure out if it's possible under 7.
More info on ...
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ESXi Serial licensing dongle
We have a server that hosts an old application that uses a serial dongle to license its product. We converted the physical server to a virtual server running in VMWare server running on Windows and ...
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How do I determine what process has a serial port open in Windows 2003
I am trying to troubleshoot a problem on a Windows 2003 server. An application needs to make use of a serial port but it appears some other application has the port open.
How can I identify what ...
