Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 08:59:03 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> Cc: Justin Hawkins <justin@tardis.mx.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem Message-ID: <38655A47.42E616B3@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912241003360.28730-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
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Leif Neland wrote: > > > Just configure it correctly. Don't tell it to talk to a serial device > > that will be sending it gibberish. > > A hack would be to have the loader emit ATE0 to protect itself from > echoing modems. AFAIK, it would not protect against all modems. I think Winmodems, for instance, won't recognize that command. > Another, but perhaps annoying would be flushing the input buffer before > each read. It's not enough. At the baud rates a modem work at, even when echoing, the flush is likely to happen before the modem finishes echoing everything. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Nice try, Lao Che." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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