>  Has anyone else had recent problems related to serial devices and i386?
>Specificly modems dropping characters.  When using Kermit it connect to
>my university's modem pool characters will randomly be lost and if I
>press a key while there is incoming text all incoming text seems to get

Forgive me if this seems obvious, but do you possibly have a getty
running on that port?

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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