Subject: Re: Serial console hangs
To: John Gordon <john_94501@yahoo.com>
From: Daniel Eggert <danieleggert@mac.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/13/2003 10:49:54
On torsdag, mar 13, 2003, at 02:16 Europe/Copenhagen, John Gordon wrote:
> The problem is that sometimes when a lot of data is passing across the 
> serial
> link (e.g. scrolling down a page in an editor) the link will hang. The 
> system
> seems to be still alive (I can ping it). I will set up ssh support on 
> it next
> so I can take a look at what is happening, but thought I'd ask if 
> anybody has
> seen anything like this before?
>

This is a know problem. Try using ssh instead if you can. Hopefully 
some day someone will fix this. It's a bug in the driver for the serial 
port.

Daniel