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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.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: <g89r4222.742548764@kudu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <g89r4222.742299445@kudu> <CA0ssD.1r2@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <1993Jul12.075230.13102@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> <CA2HDw.FDp@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 07:32:44 GMT Lines: 24 In <CA2HDw.FDp@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1993Jul12.075230.13102@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes: >> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> >SIO is pretty fascist about signals, apparently. >> Could you be more specific? >SIO requires that you have all the right lines (DTR/DCD/etc) asserted before >it'll work (I assume, all my cables carry all signals, and reported problems >seem to be due to people with less complete ones). This isn't bad, it's just >something you need to watch for. Yup, a few strokes of the soldering iron fixed things for me. You just need to make sure that your cable does carry all the signals - as Peter mentions, or to jumper the correct pins to fool the thing. 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