Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 12:39:00 +0100 From: "Richard P. Williamson" <richard.williamson@u4eatech.com> To: putnam@speakeasy.net Cc: Unix Help <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I have no idea Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20040902123500.0272ab98@cygnus> In-Reply-To: <20040902104332.GA88731@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.c o.uk> References: <W1164427289115761094111885@webmail1> <20040902104332.GA88731@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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>On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:58:05AM +0000, putnam@speakeasy.net wrote: >> I am experiencing strange things. When my system boots the screen is >>overrun with " " " marks everywhere and as it loads the words on the screen >>are all misspells as do the command's when I type them in, they still give >>the expected response thought. I cannot figure this out do you have any >>Ideas for me.? Further to Matthew Seaman's response, if you are doing this over a serial terminal, you might check the speed/bits/stop/parity of the serial connections (9600, 8N1), and the serial cable itself. I've seen this when the cable was nulled/not nulled when it should not/ should have been, or the baud rate was enough off and one side wasn't auto-sensing the speed correctly. HTH, rip
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