Subject: Re: Serial lines & terminals & getty. PLEASE help me out!
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/29/1998 15:37:36
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:18:22AM +0100, Ronny Svedman wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> >
> > > uhm, sounds like a handshake problem. Try to add "softcar" and "local" to
> > > the flags on the ttyS1 line in /etc/ttys.
> >
> > Been there, done that, got the tshirt. no success. actually no effect
> > whatsoever. i tried both sighup:ing the init process, ad rebooting (even
> > coldbooted). nil.
>
> I don't believe you. That is, I believe you did something, but I also am
> pretty convinced you misunderstood something (assuming there is no bug in the
> hardware device driver).
Being Ronny, that is pretty common. :-)
He does things first, and usually thinks later, and seldom really looks
things through fully.
(Sorry, Ronny, I couldn't resist... :-)
Johnny
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