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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!EU.net!sun4nl!swi.psy.uva.nl!tromp From: tromp@swi.psy.uva.nl (Tromp Jolanda) Subject: Re: FreeBSD multiport serial troubles... Message-ID: <CGsMxF.3L5@swi.psy.uva.nl> Organization: Social Science Informatics References: <CGorE5.23K@swi.psy.uva.nl> <2cglg6$hm@wzv.win.tue.nl> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 14:00:51 GMT Lines: 40 Thanks for all the answers i received :) It wasn't entirely setup correctly (the kernel that is). I had to add 'flags 0x101' to the first serial device spec and 'flags 1' to all other three. This made a difference right away; however, now I have another problem. Although I can use the serial terminal if i reboot the machine I cannot use it if i just let it wait. Hmm, I'm not saying this right. To be precise: 1. Reboot machine 2. Play around on the console (not the terminal) for oh dunno 5 minutes or so probably shorter. 3. Try to login into terminal (no work). However if I just reboot the machine and try to login from the terminal right away that seems to work. This is probably a handshake problem. Anyway, the really major problem I'm having now is that I have a DynaLink 1414VE and SupraFax Modem and neither seem to Auto Answer when called :( I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. It autoanswers always when I have either of them connected to a Mac or a normal DOS PC. However, if I plug it into my Multiport serial card, it only answers on VERY few occasions and only seems to give garbage to the other machine (this might just be a settings problem but i cant get it to answer enough times to test). I'm going to try to look at the getty source code to see what I can find. Could this have something to do with the /dev directory. I didn't touch it from the standard distribution of FreeBSD 1.0. However, I did setup both 'gettytab' and 'ttys'. Well hope this is enough info to give an educated guess at what I might or might not be doing ... Thanks in advance, Mimir .