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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: I must be doing something wrong but what?
Message-ID: <CG3qK6.1q0@twwells.com>
Date: 7 Nov 93 03:19:16 GMT
Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ
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I have FreeBSD epsilon up and running on my machine but am having
problems, most likely due to my ignorance. Here's what happened.

I tried to check out the serial lines by doing

stty -f /dev/tty00 clocal
cu -d -l /dev/tty00 -s 9600

Cu reports writing the first character I type at it and then
hangs. I had to reboot.

Then I figured I ought to get myself a way out other than
rebooting. I didn't see screen so I tried to telnet to myself,
figuring that I could always escape out. That didn't work. Telnet
reported connecting but there was no getty.

My system does not have an ethernet card since I don't have an
ethernet; would that account for the telnet misbehavior? Inetd is
running. As for the serial line, the only additional datum is
that power cycling the modem has at least once brought cu back.

Any suggestions?