At 3:48 Uhr +0100 20.02.1998, Amitai Schlair wrote:

>However, if I shut down
>the Mac running the terminal emulator, the NetBSD box gets awfully
>confused. (By which I mean, it doesn't respond to network requests, and
>the serial terminal window is pretty much dead -- I have to press the
>interrupt switch and type 'reboot'.)

Do you log out before powering down the Mac with the term program? It may
spit out some last chars on the serial ports that your shell doesn't
like... Same with booting; for whatever reason MacOS is quite chatty on the
serial ports.
>
>I think this is related to the fact that I'm running a getty on that
>serial port, and it gets lost when the connected serial port powers
>down. Do I even need to be running that getty, if I've set the serial
>console option in the Booter?

Umm -- Bill?   8)

	hauke


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