On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> Josh Hope wrote:
> > 
> > I have a little problem:
> > 
> > Since I installed NetBSD 1.3 (actually, it was the ALPHA immediately
> > before the 1.3 release, I'll be going to 1.3 shortly) I noticed that my
> > modem lights have been on more often. There is never a time that the
> > receive data or send data light is not on. They usually switch back and
> > forth, RD SD RD SD RD SD etc...
> > 
> > And I only noticed this change since upgrading to 1.3. It is quite
> > strange...everything else works fine :)
> 
> Hmmm...really?  I only see that when I lose a connection.  Are you using
> the modem at the time?  If you're running PPP, you can use tcpdump to see
> what's going out/coming in.  If the lights are on even when you're not
> using the modem, I'd talk to Bill Studenmund about it; he's the one who
> integrated the new serial code into the kernel.

Yep! really. I did a tcpdump, but I bet you anything there's an arg I'm
"supposed" to use...since I got this:

[otaku@unixgeek.ml.org]% tcpdump
tcpdump: /dev/bpf0: No such file or directory

If I wasn't so darn tired and so darn busy, I'd trace that down and figure
it out... :)

Thanks!

> Later.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
> Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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> I speak only on my own behalf, not for my employer.
> 

Josh Hope                                          root@unixgeek.ml.org
UNIX System Administrator                        http://unixgeek.ml.org
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