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Date:      Sat, 14 Mar 1998 16:19:56 -0500
From:      Howard Goldstein <hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        efinley@castlenet.com, lauralyng@rocket.comtrol.com, tomm@comtrol.com
Subject:   Re: Rocketport DTR, 2.2.5R, mgetty - RESOLVED
Message-ID:  <199803142119.QAA19198@bbs.mpcs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803141730.MAA09924@bbs.mpcs.com>

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In previous episodes I wrote:
 : 
 : Under 2.2.5R?  comtrol's August drivers fail to diddle DTR under
 : 2.2.5R, and -current drivers under 2.2.5R with enough patching so
 : they'll build get stuck in ioctl() forever.

This turned out to be woefully incorrect.  More verbose logging of
mgetty's activities revealed that the real culprit was mgetty's
attempted use of vtime.  That mgetty didn't have a problem with vtime
in operating on the standard cuaa ports, and too-terse logging,
conspired to lead to an erroneous conclusion about broken DTR control.

Rebuilding mgetty with BROKEN_VTIME (and reassigning the August
comtrol driver's idea of major device #s to the one assigned in
-current (i.e., 81), but this reassigment might not have been
necessary under 2.2.5R...) fixed the problem.

To the folks on the Cc: list, thank you for your advice and comments.

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