Subject: Re: Does PPP work on MacPPC?
To: None <donlee_ppc@icompute.com,port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/01/2001 13:25:47
In article <v03130300b675c7d71d34@[209.46.51.197]> you write:
>>> I'm betting that this has not been addressed because no one has PPP
>>> working on MacPPC - (serial ports dont work....)
>>
>>In what sense do they not? I'm seeing some odd brokenness on the
>>console serial port on my 4400/200; it works okay for a while (at least
>>FSVO "a while"), but then it acts as though the receiver falls over -
>>it just stops paying attention to input characters. For a while I
>>thought the whole machine was hanging, but then I noticed it happened
>>only when I was actively typing. Shortly thereafter, I got it up
>>enough to talk to the net, and next time it "hung", sure enough, it
>>still answered the net. Is this sort of experience common?
[...]
>The console on /dev/tty00 seems to work, but if you mess with it, by
>trying to change the speed or hooking up a modem, it stops working.
Hmm. I get that kind of behaviour too. I'm using a serial console on an
Apus 2000, and it stops working if I turn the terminal off, and recovers on
reboot. I haven't had a chance to look closely at it though.
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Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26 <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>