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Subject: Serial line input
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Well, as I reported before, my Ethernet problems turned out to be a
very simple, basic, configuration problem.  Now my top priority is
a serial line problem that is probably equally basic.  (As I said
before, I'm -very- new to FreeBSD and unix-on-PCs - questions on
the order of 'did you plug it in' are not out of line...)

The symptom is that I can't seem to read anything from the serial
lines.  I've run a cable to my SPARCstation, and fired up a kermit
on the other end.  When I cat to /dev/tty01 on the BSD box, the
data shows up in the kermit.  But when I cat from /dev/tty01 and
type in the kermit nothing happens.  Also, I am getting no input
from my mouse on /dev/tty00 (which makes X11 pretty useless...)

I've tried using ttyi01 to toggle various flags; but with no
detectable result.  (Except for being able to kick the baud
rate up to 38.4K).

I'm using the built-in serial ports on an ASUS PCI/I SP3G, and
FreeBSD 2.0 (January 1995 Walnut Creek CD-ROM).


Thanks,
-Pat