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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!knuth.cba.csuohio.edu!llunch From: llunch@knuth.cba.csuohio.edu (Jason Baker) Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 current com ports dont work Message-ID: <1994Jul11.162745.19095@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio References: <2v8cc2$807@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <9407110047.11@rmkhome.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 16:27:45 GMT Lines: 33 In article <9407110047.11@rmkhome.com> rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) writes: >Darren Hosking (dmh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au) wrote: >: I had been using NetBSD 0.9 with tip and cu out through com ports with no >: problems but have since upgraded to NetBSD 0.9 current to get PPP support. > >: Since upgrading to current the com ports do not work correctly. When I connect >: to a port DTR is raised but when I type any characters both tip and cu >: drop out with "link down" and "write: Input/output error" respectively. > >: Does anyone have any idea what the problem is? > >I haven't tried to find the problem, but my workaround is to set DCD high >all the time in my modem setup. Luckily, I have another computer here >whose serial drivers are working fine. > I had a similar problem, and it went away when I added softcar to my modem's line in /etc/ttys: # # from: @(#)ttys 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89 # $Id: ttys,v 1.6 1994/02/05 12:51:58 deraadt Exp $ # # name getty type status comments # console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" pc3 off secure vga "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" pc3 on secure tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure tty01 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure softcar ... If I could get unix to dial for me, I don't think the softcar setting would be nessisary, however, it only seems to use tones, and I have a pulse line. Jason