On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 02:39:12PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> That seems to make sense, but I'm a little puzzled, as the box hasn't got
> stuck before, yet had the same setup of serial console with nothing
> plugged into the other end of the cable. Am I missing something?

Did you turn on flow control, or turn off ignore-DTR (the "local" flag)
on the console TTY?

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  Thor Lancelot Simon	                                     tls@rek.tjls.com

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