From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 31 13:47:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8020037B9FC for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA73043; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:47:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:47:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Nick Sayer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de Subject: Re: dumb terminal on db9 serial port In-Reply-To: <200003311835.KAA40828@medusa.kfu.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Nick Sayer wrote: > naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de wrote: > > >I think BSD expects DCD to be active. A local bridge DTR->DCD should > >do. The terminal also may require DCD to be active. > > See PR #5959 for more about this. This looks like it's probably the origin of the "Can't start a serial terminal unless you boot with a serial console" problem, yes? Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message