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- From: edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Serial I/O in 99pl3-4
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 12:19:48 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- btenison@eng.auburn.edu (Bruce Tenison) wrote:
- >Is anyone haveing trouble with the new serial driver (3.8) in 99pl3-4??
- >Everything worked fine up to and including 99pl2, but now, everything
- >seems to work EXCEPT the serial lines. I have ttys0 set to my mouse
- >and ttys1 to the modem. Kermit responds that it gets an I/O error
- >and the mouse test util that comes with the Xfree responds that it
- >cannot open the mouse. BTW, I have a Packard Bell 386x with on-board
- >serial ports (in case this helps).
- Well, I'm not exactly having trouble, but the behaviour did change when
- I went from p0 to p3 (might have been p2 to p3 even, I'm fuzzy on that
- :). The ports generally seem to work fine, except for one anomaly.
- When I hang up from our local annex, I used to get the NO CARRIER
- message from the modem when it disconnected. Now, instead, I get no
- message, and if I type anything to the modem after the disconnet, I get
- an I/O error (unable to write or somesuch). So far this hasn't been a
- problem, but it does seem to indicate a bug somewhere. BTW, I'm not
- using the serial autoconfigure option.
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- Brian Edmonds (MSc CompSci) edmonds@cs.ubc.ca
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