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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!ub!csn!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: Problems with patchkit 0.2.4 Message-ID: <1993Jul30.015032.176@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT References: <BLYMN.93Jul25173659@siren.awadi.com.au> <231gm7INNrff@kralizec.zeta.org.au> <BLYMN.93Jul29103314@siren.awadi.com.au> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 93 01:50:32 GMT Lines: 19 In article <BLYMN.93Jul29103314@siren.awadi.com.au> blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes: >I have been misunderstood. My statement was intended to mean that >leaving the rts/cts connected as the original poster had it would not >do any harm. Most RS-232 interfaces I have worked with have the flow >control lines pulled to the correct levels with resistors... of course >on cheap & nasty pc hardware this is probably not the case. I will *CERTIFY* that the vast majority of internal modems do not pull the signals in the correct directions. To do so would require additional circuitry between the UART an modem portions of the card. Try *that* with a Rockwell chipset... hint: you will need an electron microscope, to begin with. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.