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From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! How do I setup null modem in FreeBSD?
Date: 26 Jan 1995 23:43:21 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In-reply-to: seoym@archi.snu.ac.kr's message of Fri, 20 Jan 95 03:14:09 GMT

In article <SEOYM.95Jan20121525@archi.snu.ac.kr> seoym@archi.snu.ac.kr
(Seo) writes:

> I want to use "kermit" as console device of my evaluation board(MIPS
> bare machine) in FreeBSD, but kermit hangs when I set line to /dev/tty00.
[...]
> What's the problem and How do I correct it?

Kermit waits for a carrier detect signal to come up. You can tell
kermit not to wait with "set carrier off" (or something similar, this
is from memory). Worked for me.

-- 
Juergen Nickelsen