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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Crazy remote login problem Date: 10 Mar 1996 11:16:41 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4hudmp$1ca@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4hraie$pfc@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 george@ee.ualberta.ca (Jason George) writes: (modem problems) > I am making an educated guess that there is a parity flip occurring > on the line from the time I hit enter after the password to the time the > actual login is processed. Whatever I type at the remote end is echoed > back cleanly and is executed properly but the 'text' coming back down > the line is complete garbage. I have tried dialing in with _every_ > conceivable and supported bit scheme. Looks like you should turn your tty line and modem setup to use hardware (CTS/RTS) handshake. For the tty line, refer to /etc/rc.serial, for the modem, see the modem documentation. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)