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Date:      Sun, 29 Apr 2001 11:15:25 -0400
From:      Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>
To:        leclercn@videotron.ca
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.3-Stable, serial terminals problem
Message-ID:  <20010429111525.B47740@vger.bsdhome.com>
In-Reply-To: <3AEC256F.9040105@videotron.ca>; from nospam@videotron.ca on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:30:07AM -0400
References:  <3AEC256F.9040105@videotron.ca>

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On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:30:07AM -0400, tcn wrote:

>    Since the upgrade, my terminals are screwed.  To get a proper login 
> prompt, I had to modify gettytab to force unbuffered output (ub).  The 
> prompt is ok now but once I log on, everything is screwed again.  I 
> tried in 300 bps to check if there was any communication problems and I 
> am still missing a lot of chars.  (When I say screwed, I mean it looks 
> like it is missing a lot of chars.  I don't get garbage)  I am having 
> the very same problem with my alpha machine.

The behaviour is inidicative of hardware flow not being enabled for
the session.  Try adding "hw:" to the end of your gettytab entry to
turn it on.  See gettytab(5) for the complete list of controlling
options.

-Brian

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