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From: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Cyclades 16Ye buggy?
Date: 10 Apr 1997 21:05:13 +1000
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix
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In article <5igjle$b7v@bluesprings.in-brb.de>,
Lars Hentschke <nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de> wrote:

>I'm using 2.1.7 and an ISA Cyclom 16Ye.
>Flowcontrol with CTS/RTS works fine, but hangups on CD not.
>
>A running pppd on this line (locked: stty -clocal -hupcl) doesnt
>recognise a hangup and blocks forever this device. (util a kill)
>normally a hangup is reported over the CD-wire of my modem-cable and it works
>on 16XXX UARTs, but not on this Cyclomcard.
>CD goes down, but nothing happens.

The Cyclades driver has buggy carrier handling in 2.1.7, at least in
the clocal case.  Locking -clocal should help.  Are you sure that it
is locked?  Locking -hupcl is probably wrong.  The default is -clocal
hupcl with no locks.

This is fixed in 2.2 and -current.
-- 
Bruce Evans  bde@zeta.org.au