Hello The Fungi, everything works fine with cu(1) on OpenBSD 4.0. Still the whole thing has left me with a few questions.
I'm sure that there wasn't a problem with the net4801 the first time I tested, but now there is as well as with the net5501. The net5501 never worked with ubu 6.10. It looks like things go wrong most of the time, but not all of the time, and that it has been getting worse in the course of today. But that's hard to tell on hindsight, the first time I was just trying out different things, with little structure. The "works sometimes" behaviour would suggest a hardware failure, e.g. a worn out serial port connector on the laptop. But then why does everything always work as expected once OpenBSD has taken over? What does the comBIOS do with the USART that the OpenBSD boot loader and kernel don't? And, is there a way to make the comBIOS act the same as the OpenBSD software? Apparently a "hangup signal" here refers to an RS232 hangup signal "caused by a drop of DCD voltage by the modem" (http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-12.html). I can't see what a Soekris box has to do with the DCD line, however. I'll test it some more the next days, see if anything interesting turns up. And I'm very curious to hear from the experts on this one. Bill On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 19:13 +0000, The Fungi wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 08:11:57PM +0200, Bill Maas wrote: > > I was wrong: more systematic testing revealed that the same thing > > occurred with the net4801 as well. So it looks like either > > cu 1.07-19ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 6.10 is broken, or my only laptop with a > > serial port is slowly falling apart (can't find out which is the problem > > right now due to no PC with 6.10, and no time for installing it). Hasn't > > anyone else had this problem with U6.10? > [...] > > Have you tested with another terminal emulator (screen, ckermit) to > rule out your hardware and pinpoint cu itself as the issue? -- "Ask not what it's for, ask what you can do with it." _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
