Re: serial communication problem with 1.4.0.7

Try using the latest out of git, often most distributions provide old
releases of dosemu.


On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Damien Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have been using DOSemu in conjunction with Debian versions 5, 6 and 7,
> together with a number of different physical computers, and have found
> it very useful indeed. It provides me with the ability to back up a
> hand-held device via a serial cable and proprietary program written for
> MS-DOS. With all of these setups I have installed the version of DOSemu
> from the Debian repository. In all cases I have found it sufficient to
> insert one of the following lines in /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf in order to
> identify the serial port.
> $_com1 = "/dev/ttyS0"
> $_com1 = "/dev/ttyUSB0"
> From this you can see that I have used both inbuilt serial ports (ie on
> the motherboard) as well as USB serial port adapters. The only other
> modification necessary has been to use one of the following commands in
> order to gain access to the serial port.
> chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0
> chmod 666 /dev/ttyUSB0
>
> Recently I bought a new computer and installed Debian version 8,
> together with DOSemu 1.4.0.7 from the standard repository. I made the
> usual adjustments as above. The emulation started and ran normally but
> serial communication failed. I tried the USB adapter in place of the
> motherboad COM port, but to no avail. I tested the connecting hardware
> using a different computer running Debian 7 and all was in working
> order. I solved the problem by using an older repository and forcing the
> installation of DOSemu version 1.4.0.1, after which everthing worked
> normally.
>
> I thought it might be helpful to let you know.
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