While make connection of printer to Dell E6400 + emea2 through serial port the Dell’s user getting a problem. If he doesn’t open the serial port using software (normal state) and e6400 sets “1″ to TxD line, the printer shows error. If he’s open port by putty, the port works properly and sets “0″ make he is able to communicate with devices. And the problem is it only happened when he’s running on Vista and XP. Meanwhile running Linux on Dell E6400 all works fine.
As the problem connecting printer on E6400 Dell laptop only happen in Vista and XP, means it’s not the Dell issue but the
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So to fix the problem of connecting printer on Dell E6400 which occurs only when running Vista and XP, you could setup a Live Knoppix configuration and run XP under QEMU.