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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!TAMUTS.TAMU.EDU!news.utdallas.edu!feenix.metronet.com!pgilley From: pgilley@feenix.metronet.com (Phil Gilley) Subject: Re: bidirectional com ports References: <CFw6yK.EBq@feenix.metronet.com> <MYCROFT.93Nov4123252@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Organization: Tx Metronet Communications Services, Dallas Tx Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 03:01:51 GMT Message-ID: <CG00F4.69n@feenix.metronet.com> Lines: 27 In article <MYCROFT.93Nov4123252@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > >In article <CFw6yK.EBq@feenix.metronet.com> >pgilley@feenix.metronet.com (Phil Gilley) writes: > > Do either of these support bidirectional com ports? > >What exactly do you expect to gain from it? I dial in all the time to >machines with simple, non-kluged serial drivers and it works fine. > >I think you are confused about what you really want. That very well may be, so let me explain. What I want is the ability to set up a modem for dial in purposes (uucp logins, user logins) AND still be able to use the modem for dialing out (uucp, tip, etc). Under 386BSD 0.1 + patchkit 0.2.2 this wasn't possible until I switched over to cgd's bidirectional com driver. So my question is, with the stock NetBSD 0.9 com driver, is what I mentioned above possible? And if so, how? Is it accomplished with a program like comcontrol (which cgd provided with his driver) or it is enough to set up two devices for the same port? From the mail I've received, I understand this is not a problem with FreeBSD 1.0, but I've had conflicting responses concerning NetBSD. -phil