On Fri, 7 Oct 1994, Tomas Karki wrote:

> I have problem with the serial port and NetBSD prerelease 2.
> 
> I want that it should be possible for others calling me, so I did this:
> 
> echo "ats0=1" >tty00
> 
> But when my computer tries to send something to the serialport (I think 
> it is then it happens) the RD/SD LED:s is lit all the time. (I.e. something 
> is sent from/to the modem all the time)
> 
> Have I done something wrong or is there a problem with the serialport 
> handling in NetBSD prerelease 2?

I had this problem.  You can't send anything to the serial port when 
getty is sitting on it, or getty will think a call is incoming.  I solved 
this by putting the following two lines at the end of my "/etc/rc.local" 
file.

echo "ats0=2" >/dev/tty00
echo "" >/dev/tty00

When rc.local is executed, the getty process hasn't been run yet, so they 
don't interfere.  The modem is put in auto answer mode, and a little 
later init runs getty.

Good luck.

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Quetzalcoatl Bradley
qbradley@csc.uvic.ca