Subject: Re: serial console issues
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: Amitai Schlair <amitai.schlair@usa.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/23/1998 19:35:53
> 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.

Yes, I do a clean logout before shutting down.

Strange, eh?

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