From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 23 16:20:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA18884 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 16:20:33 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA18875 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 16:20:32 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA03337; Sun, 23 Jul 95 17:13:00 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9507232313.AA03337@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: dial up at > 9600 baud To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 95 17:12:59 MDT Cc: ache@astral.msk.su, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org, harry@hgac.com, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu In-Reply-To: <199507231738.DAA18866@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 24, 95 03:38:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >I guess I still don't understand how the modem magically detects > >the port speed when the port sets the baud before it says anything > >(like "login: "). > > Perhaps getty sometimes writes something before setting the speed. > It does quite a let between the open and setting the speed. If it does, then it's broken. And that's what should be fixed. >From a cusory scan of the code, I'd say it's not broken. Maybe his modem is sending crap before raising DCD, and it's getting echoed before a read is issued by getty? This would be a driver bug. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.