Connecting my Opera 206 to a printer
Hurrah!
It’s only taken me 3 days, but I’ve managed to get my Opera 206 to dump its config out of its RS232 port. It’s designed to be connected to a printer, but I don’t have a printer with a serial port handy so I’ve got it hooked up to my computer instead.
Here’s how you hook it all up:
| RS232 (9 Pin DSUB) |
Opera 206 |
| CTS (Pin 8) | RTS |
| RX (Pin 2) | TXD |
| GND (Pin 5) | GND |
Optional: Connect DSR(Pin 6) and DTR(Pin 4) together on the RS232 plug. (Note, this may be needed for printers, but it seems to work OK without)
Why did that take you 3 days?
Although the above makes perfect logical sense, it’s not what the manual says to do. This is a perfect lesson in “when is it appropriate to trust the manual, and when is it appropriate to think the situation through from first principals”
Just for my reference, here’s the current config of my Opera 206, which looks a lot like the default config:
ispms@super:~$ cu -l /dev/ttyS0 -s 4800
Connected.
Ext Line Number Dialled Duration
Hr Min Sec
--------------------------------------
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Extension Assignment
1 2 3 4 5 6
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Day Service | | | | | |
Line 1 X | | | | |
| | | | | |
Day Service | | | | | |
Line 2 X | | | | |
| | | | | |
Night Service | | | | | |
Line 1 X | | | | |
| | | | | |
Night Service | | | | | |
Line 2 X | | | | |
| | | | | |
Outgoing Assignment | | | | | |
Line 1 X X X X X X
| | | | | |
Outgoing Assignment | | | | | |
Line 2 X X X X X X
| | | | | |
Barring | | | | | |
| | | | | |
Data Protection | | | | | |
------------------------------
Line Programming
1 2
------------------------------
MF : X X
Decadic :
------------------------------
------------------------------
PABX :
Trunk : X X
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Ext Line Number Dialled Duration
Hr Min Sec
--------------------------------------
Exception Table
---------------
Ext Line Number Dialled Duration
Hr Min Sec
--------------------------------------
~.
Disconnected.
ispms@super:~$
Oh, and don’t worry – there will be photos of the lunchtime snowball fight along in a minute, I just wanted to write this up before I forget what I did.