[Coco] Serial to usb printers

[Luis Fernández]

Thanks Gene
Finally
 I understood
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> From: gheskett at wdtv.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:36:52 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Serial to usb printers
> 
> On Wednesday, June 06, 2012 10:59:10 AM Luis Fernández did opine:
> 
> > Thanks
> > I understand all that,
> > have to plot each letter and besides you have to handle the USB protocol
> > which is complex But the question is to the hardware connection, the
> > physical connection, voltages etc. .., is it possible?,
> > need to interface?
>  
> Sure you can.  FTDI makes the best serial to usb adapters.  But with 
> drivewire you don't have to use it.  It uses a serial port on your pc if 
> they are close enough.  All you need is the bit banger cable.
> 
> However, in my case as my coco is setup in my "finished" basement, the 
> cable length is probably too long (25 feet or more) due to the puny drivers 
> in the coco, so my "drivewire" cable is only 2 feet long and feeds a seriel 
> to usb adapter, which in turn is plugged into one port of a 7 port usb-2.0 
> hub, which in turn is fed from a 30 foot USB2.0 cable (not an FTDI, but an 
> Msomething Terminus Technology, they have figured out how to make 
> loooooong, as in 10 meters long usb cables work) which comes up here and is 
> plugged into one of the 6 USB-2.0 ports on this ASUS motherboard.  
> Drivewire is then configured to use /dev/ttyUSB0 and it all Just Works(TM)  
> 
> The printer, a Brother HL-2140 is plugged into that same 7 port hub on the 
> cocos desk.
> 
> Cheers, Gene
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