Subject: Re: port-i386/450: mis-feature in i386/isa/com.c?
To: Alasdair Baird <alasdair@wildcat.demon.co.uk>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@alpha.bostic.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/31/1994 14:15:39
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 	Stick a modem on a "softcar" direct connect, run up a pppd and
> 	then "kill -HUP" it.  Listen to the modem (if it has a speaker)
> 	then being off-hook for a long while until it takes it upon
> 	itself eventually to hangup.

as has been said several times in the past, 'softcar' is meant to be
used ONLY for hardwired terminals that cannot properly provide their
own "carrier" signals.

you should not, under _any_ circumstances, be using it for a line
which has a modem attached.


cgd

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