Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 18:05:31 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Cc: leifn@neland.dk (Leif Neland), justin@tardis.mx.com.au (Justin Hawkins), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem Message-ID: <199912260005.SAA07730@celery.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <38655A47.42E616B3@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at Dec 26, 1999 08:59:03 AM
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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. True, but until you've downloaded boot code to the modem, most winmodems won't respond at all... (Also, most winmodems that I've seen don't emulate a UART, so they won't even cause a problem) Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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