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 <damien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
