From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 13 15:48: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB5937B405 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:48:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0084.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.84] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16b97g-00029N-00; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:47:36 -0800 Message-ID: <3C6AFB0C.B364DC97@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:47:24 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bernd Walter Cc: Normand Leclerc , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial console drops dead References: <000501c1b494$c9c22d30$038c898e@dactyl> <20020213150404.GK23566@cicely8.cicely.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:46:07AM -0500, Normand Leclerc wrote: > I am having an annoying problem with my serial console. After a while > (1 or 2 days) it drops dead. > > I have configured flags 0x30 for sio0 on FreeBSD 4.5 on my PC164sx > computer. The serial terminal is a computer that is not always turned > on. Use a null-modem cable, so that the computer doesn't have any way of knowing (lack of DTR, RTS, CTS, DSR, DCD) that you don't have the console turned on. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message