Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-13 Thread Peter Vereshagin
r managing Natex MUXes. It works [..] VS> Solution 2. Using an existing networked FreeBSD box sitting next to VS> the MUX, it already has COM ports. Advantage: cheap, no additional ok. no interactivity. But I'm still optimistic about virtualization. emulators/qemu at the least should

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-04 Thread Victor Sudakov
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > In fact, the question is whether there is a standards compliant > > (not written for some proprietary hardware terminal server > > protocol) driver for Windows. Not exactly a FreeBSD question, > > I know :) > > Finding a Windows driver that will work with an exi

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-04 Thread Victor Sudakov
next to the MUX, it already has COM ports. Advantage: cheap, no additional rack space and power. Disadvantage: doubts if this solution is feasible, especially on the Windows side. A minicom or any other interactive terminal emulation software is out of the question. The MUX managing software uses it

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread perryh
Victor Sudakov wrote: > In fact, the question is whether there is a standards compliant > (not written for some proprietary hardware terminal server > protocol) driver for Windows. Not exactly a FreeBSD question, > I know :) Finding a Windows driver that will work with an existing FreeBSD progra

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Peter Vereshagin
ry for such a scenario? VS> At least it has an example of an RFC 2217 client (COM port to TCP VS> redirector) in its README file. Thanks again, will look at it. >From what I remember the os/2 smb protocol implementation could share COM ports as easily as LPT ports for printers. I can't

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
Polytropon wrote: > > > > There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be > > accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone > > have a success story for such a scenario? > > > > There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc but are > > ther

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:02:17 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Colleagues, > > There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be > accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone > have a success story for such a scenario? > > There is some software like comms/seri

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
Eric Masson wrote: > > > There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be > > accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone > > have a success story for such a scenario? > > Yes, sredird on the FreeBSD box & NetDialout from PCMicro on the Windows > box. Oh,

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Victor Sudakov
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports > > > be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? > > > > If I understand your question correctly, then AFAICT the only way to > > access serial ports over the network is with a piece of addition

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread perryh
Peter Boosten wrote: > On 3-9-2012 5:02, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports > > be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? > > If I understand your question correctly, then AFAICT the only way to > access serial ports over the network is

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Eric Masson
Victor Sudakov writes: Hi, > There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be > accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone > have a success story for such a scenario? Yes, sredird on the FreeBSD box & NetDialout from PCMicro on the Windows box. > There

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-02 Thread Peter Boosten
On 3-9-2012 5:02, Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc but

Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-02 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc but are there any (freeware) Windows virtual C

rescan com ports

2010-08-04 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello guys, my system: 8.0-release i386 my question: Is there a way to manually rescan the com devices ? reason: yesterday I added a USR external modem on one com port and the system did not detect it until a reboot. Is this normal ? btw, is there a way to manually detect newly added hardware ? s

dosbox and com ports

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Maness
nyone has played with com ports. Thanks, Chris KQ6UP ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: Can't detect COM ports...

2004-08-20 Thread JJB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:15:02 +0300, "Ajesh John" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Hi, >> I have got a problem with my HS56 PCTel modem because I can not >> enable my serial ports. The first two ports are automatically >> enabled, but the third and the fourth does not

Re: Can't detect COM ports...

2004-08-18 Thread Ajesh John
Hi, I'm sorry. I forgot to include this. I have an internal modem. And I'm using FreeBSD 5.1. There are only 2 cuaa devices in the /dev directory(cuaa1 and cuaa2). Are my ports detected correctly or is it my modem that is not detected?, - Ajesh On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:1

Re: Can't detect COM ports...

2004-08-15 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >I have got a problem with my HS56 PCTel modem because I can not enable >my serial ports. The first two ports are automatically enabled, but >the third and the fourth does not get enabled. I read the handbook >and >tried to do it myself, but without success. I have connected the >mode

RE: Can't detect COM ports...

2004-08-15 Thread JJB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I have got a problem with my HS56 PCTel modem because I can not > enable my serial ports. The first two ports are automatically > enabled, but the third and the fourth does not get enabled. I read > the handbook and tried to do it myself, but without success

Can't detect COM ports...

2004-08-15 Thread Ajesh John
Hi, I have got a problem with my HS56 PCTel modem because I can not enable my serial ports. The first two ports are automatically enabled, but the third and the fourth does not get enabled. I read the handbook and tried to do it myself, but without success. I have connected the modem to t

Re: com ports in freebsd

2004-02-11 Thread Eric F Crist
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 01:23 pm, Duane Winner wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question about how FreeBSD handles the serial ports. > > After messing around for 2 days, I finally got my PCMCIA modem working > on my laptop. All I really had to do was to > "cd /dev/ && ./MAKEDEV cuaa4" > > I did t

com ports in freebsd

2004-02-11 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I have a question about how FreeBSD handles the serial ports. After messing around for 2 days, I finally got my PCMCIA modem working on my laptop. All I really had to do was to "cd /dev/ && ./MAKEDEV cuaa4" I did this because dmesg kept reporting the Megahertz modem at "sio4". What I don

Re: COM ports

2003-09-14 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:29:44AM -0700, Claudiu Bichir wrote: > Hy folks ! > I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed on my computer and I wanted to know how can I > enable the COM3 & COM4 ports. The ports are disabled by default in 5.0. > I tried to modify /boot/device.hints but with no hope . > I commente

COM ports

2003-09-11 Thread Claudiu Bichir
Hy folks ! I have FreeBSD 5.0 installed on my computer and I wanted to know how can I enable the COM3 & COM4 ports. The ports are disabled by default in 5.0. I tried to modify /boot/device.hints but with no hope . I commented hint.sio.2.disabled="1" and hint.sio.3.disabled="1" out but when I rebo