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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:8581 comp.windows.x.i386unix:7106 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: Problems with NetBSD-0.9/XFree86-2.0 Date: 8 Feb 94 15:58:49 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 26 Message-ID: <michaelv.760723129@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> References: <2j3r5t$34t@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu> <MIKE.LONG.94Feb7173040@cthulhu.analog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ponderous.cc.iastate.edu In <MIKE.LONG.94Feb7173040@cthulhu.analog.com> Mike.Long@analog.com (Michael W. Long) writes: >In article <2j3r5t$34t@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu> rick@cs.sunysb.edu (Rick Spanbauer) writes: >> 1. com0 occasionally hangs kermit/tip in a state that kill -9 >> will not remove them (process state SE+). >I've had this happen to me. The com driver is sensitive to XOFF (^S) >even when it is told to use RTS/CTS flow control (SET FLOW RTS/CTS in >kermit). If you unprefix ^S and download a binary that contains a ^S, >the serial port hangs consistently. This bug still exists in >NetBSD-current as of 1/24/94. >-- >Mike Long Mike.Long@Analog.com I've never experienced this. Does the *serial port* (not the program) know that it's supposed to be ignoring xon/xoff? Try doing a "stty -f /dev/tty00 -ixon -ixoff crtscts" before entering kermit (assuming you're using tty00). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------