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From: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Cyclades multiport boards?
Date: 26 Dec 1995 01:33:54 +1100
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix
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Message-ID: <4bmcoi$uhq@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
References: <4bkfsn$rjh@osprey.unf.edu>
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In article <4bkfsn$rjh@osprey.unf.edu>,
Cliff Addy <caddy@osprey.unf.edu> wrote:
>I'm trying to set up FreeBSD to service dialin users with a Cyclades Cyclom-Ye
>16-port board.  The system works fine when getty or mgetty is monitoring
>serial port 0 (ttyd0), but when I turn them loose on the Cyclades port, the
>user end's responses to the login: prompt are not recognized.  The mgetty
>eventually times out and drops the connection.

Use FreeBSD-2.1 and the supported Cyclades driver.  Earlier versions and
other drivers have various bugs.  The 2.1 version has only 1 known bug :-).
-- 
Bruce Evans  bde@zeta.org.au