Subject: Re: coms
To: John Maier <JohnAM@datastorm.com>
From: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <pappires@vortex.del.ufrj.br>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/11/1996 02:57:51
> I am using a hybrid NetBSD 1.2/A on an i486/sx that has a 16450 UART.
> My problem is, when I use cu or tip to try to access the modem, i get
> no response. the modem is on tty01(com2) and I get "write error" from
> cu every time it "connects" to the modem. What am I doing wrong? I would
> like to be able to use ppp, but I'm not sure if somewhere a capability
> file was misedited or whether there is some other problem.

Both tip and cu stopped working for me when I upgraded from 1.1
to 1.2beta.  I made absolutely no changes to any configuration file
on my system.  This might be a new bug in tip/cu (???).

A workaround is using kermit (which provides a much better interface
anyway).

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	Pappires