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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!ncar!noao!amethyst!organpipe.uug.arizona.edu!argon!jl From: jl@argon.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Joshua Lackey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: sio - problem with login hanging up Message-ID: <jl.742241236@argon> Date: 9 Jul 93 18:07:16 GMT References: <g89r4222.742204159@kudu> Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu Organization: University of Arizona - Tucson, Arizona Lines: 26 In <g89r4222.742204159@kudu> g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes: >I have just installed the sio drivers in my kernel, but have >encountered a couple of problems. I have 2 serial ports >configured, one of which is a mouse (still works fine) and the >other is connected to a PC which can be used as a dumb terminal. >The problems start when I try to log in from the PC: after I >enter a login name the line hangs, I don't get a password prompt, >and I am left with a login process sitting there. (The setup I >have worked perfectly - apart from silo overflows - with the old >com drivers.) Me too. The way I got around that was just to use the stock com for my terminal and sio for everything else. That does look like a bug in sio though... -- jl@gas.uug.arizona.edu ---------------------- jl@axis.tucson.az.us The golden age of mathematics--that was not the age of Euclid, it is ours. C. J. Keyser