Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:01:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: ed@80386.nl (Ed Schouten) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Subject: Re: Serial console problems with stable/8 Message-ID: <201009132001.o8DK1LoZ052516@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20100913184402.GH56986@hoeg.nl>
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Ed Schouten wrote: > Just replying to a random message in this thread. > > Maybe we should just implement /dev/console in such a way that it can > never get stuck on dcd. I've seen this break too many times. > > Below is an untested patch. Anyone willing to test it for me? Thank you! I will gladly test it on Friday. I'm sorry I can't test it earlier, but I'm reluctant to test things like this remotely. @ Jeremy: Thank you for the detailed response! I will make sure to bring a multimeter with me and check the pin connections on my nullmodem cable. I'm still curious why this cable worked with 7.x with the same configuration. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "The scanf() function is a large and complex beast that often does something almost but not quite entirely unlike what you desired." -- Chris Torek
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