From: a.lawrence (alawrenc@sobeco.com)
Date: 10/04/92


From: alawrenc@sobeco.com (a.lawrence)
Subject: Re: Problems with 0.98 and serial ports
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 23:30:08 GMT

In <1992Oct4.202939.27312@athena.mit.edu> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:

> The relevant equipment is: 16550AN UART and US Robotics HST Dual Standard.
> Uugetty from the getty_ps packaged handles the dialup line. I'm using
> rts/cts flow control and a fixed DTE rate of 38.4kbps.

>.... and earlier you talked about the flow control LED's blinking madly.
>Are you using a non-standard serial driver, per chance?!? The one
>included in 0.97pl6 and 0.98 (i.e., mine) doesn't do RTS/CTS flow
>honor the CTS line from the modem.

>(I have a version which does toggle the RTS line, but it hasn't been
>released yet.)

>This sounds more like the modem going insane, or possibly a serious bug
>in the serial driver. I never seen this problem before, though, and
>I've been making a point of stress-testing the serial driver. If you
>could debug it some more, and send me any information you can, I'd
>appreciate it.

Actually it sounds like uugetty is having a conversation with the
modem:

        i.e. modem ==> OK
            uugetty ==> login:
              modem ==> DISCONNECT
            uugetty ==> password:

etc.

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