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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uunet!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!kudu!g89r4222 From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Subject: Re: sio - problem with login hanging up Message-ID: <g89r4222.742299445@kudu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <g89r4222.742204159@kudu> <jl.742241236@argon> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 10:17:25 GMT Lines: 27 In <jl.742241236@argon> jl@argon.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Joshua Lackey) writes: >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 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... Hmm, I don't think there's a problem in sio. I decided yesterday afternoon to open up my serial cable, and found that lines 4&5 and 6,8,20 weren't jumpered - that may well be causing the problem - Will see when I can get hold of a soldering iron on Monday. Geoff. -- ============================csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za=============================== Geoff Rehmet, Parallel Processing Group, |#define DISCLAIMER These are my Computer Science Department, | ramblings, not the Rhodes University, RSA. | University's