At 8:02 PM 98.07.28, Andrew Foakes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> An update on NetBSD version 1.3.2 on my Classic II with apologies for
> those who are bored silly by this.
>
> I've managed to get a ppp link between my Classic II and another Mac
> running OT/PPP, with a few error messages and generally slow connection
> (it's time to play with a few of those ppp options).  As I'm not dialling
> out, I've put pppd in /etc/ttys for tty01 rather than getty.  But, I've
> had to do this with tty01 as tty00 never responds.  It doesn't even let
> me put a terminal on it under getty, which tty01 does.  Does this mean I
> have a piece of dead hardware or is there some other process that sets up
> the modem port in a strange way that is stopping either getty or pppd
> from working properly?
>

Reading your report, I tried on my Classic II with NetBSD 1.3.1,  and met
the same phenomenon.

In my case, "another Mac" is iici, from which I tried to login to ClassicII
using an ordinary terminal software. The result is, the modem port does NOT
respond to the terminal at all while the printer port does. (I could
confirm it using ps -ax command. Even with the printer port, however, I
can't go further to login. I don't know why.) The kernel is netbsd.c2.1.3.1
by N.Yamada.

I wonder if this has something to do with the lack of hardware Carrier
Detection (7pin) on some Macintoshes' serial ports? (I'm just wondering
because I don't
know anything about these things :-))

Takashi Ikemi

PS:
Using this occasion, I'd like to say my thanks to :
Andrew Foakes for letting me know about c2 kernels,
Norikai Yamada for making c2 kernels and let us use them,
and
Kazunori Miura for providing lot of information about ClassicII
in his new gorgeous MacBSD book (^^;