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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:47:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
To:        Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
Subject:   Re: dumb terminal on db9 serial port
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003311346160.72992-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <200003311835.KAA40828@medusa.kfu.com>

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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
-- 
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