OT: printing filepro on SERIAL PORT Linux

[Enrique Arredondo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Vaughan" <wvaughan at steelerubber.com>
To: "filePro" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: OT: printing filepro on SERIAL PORT Linux


> Enrique Arredondo wrote:
>
>> I'm need help, I have a filepro system running on Fedora Core 6 and I 
>> need
>> to print a label to a printer that's on port /dev/ttyS0 (com1) but the 
>> damn thing won't print because cups is reporting this error :
>>
>> Unable to open serial port device file "/dev/ttyS0": Permission denied
>>
>> I searched all over the internet and lots of people having the same 
>> problem but I can't find the solution, Does anybody knows how to fix that 
>> error ?
>
> I had same problem a few weeks ago with a Ubuntu box that had to have a 
> serial label printer and a parallel laser printer. I realized that I could 
> move the laser printer to the USB port and the label printer to the 
> parallel port.
>
> Are you lucky enough to have similar situation?
>
> --

No USB ports on this barcode printer :-( , but I found the solution , Well 
not the one I expected, but let me explain:

I Tested the Serial Printer on a LINUX AS server that I have around here, 
and setting the printer up using /dev/ttyS0, It worked out great!!!. So I 
though maybe FedoraCore it has something not set right , so I downloaded 
Linux ES v.4 distribution , installed it, and it printed out with no 
problems whatsoever. (Now I wonder why Microlite's BE won't support Fedora 
Core AT ALL!!) (funny thing is that Lone-Tar supports FC-Linux and backs up 
great)!.