Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 05:20:49 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@cs.weber.edu Cc: ache@astral.msk.su, hackers@freebsd.org, harry@hgac.com, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: dial up at > 9600 baud Message-ID: <199507241920.FAA28570@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> It is maintained separately. Read the man page. We're talking about >> the problem that changes to the defaults for initial state can be >> specified in either /etc/rc.serial or in /etc/gettytab, and it must be >> specified in /etc/gettytab because getty doesn't trust the defaults and >> it may want to autobaud, and setting it in /etc/rc.serial might fix the >> original problem. >This is really my whole problem with rc.serial, which could probably >be argued for on the basis of CTS/RTS flow control, and maybe nothing >else. In Linux it is used to initialize IRQs etc. for recalcitrant h/w :-). >The default baud being 9600 is not the problem. The modem being able >to "magically" detect the baud which the port is set to *is* the problem. >The only way to solve this thing is to find where the error is in the >driver or in the getty or in the modem cable or in the modem settings >and correct it. This is hard to do when the person who has the problem is not part of this discussion. Bruce
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