port-i386: Re: serial console problem

Subject: Re: serial console problem
To: port-i386@NetBSD.ORG, Kevin Sullivan <ksulliva@psc.edu>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/07/1997 19:08:59

Excerpts from netbsd: 7-Nov-97 serial console problem Kevin
Sullivan@psc.edu (955*)

> whenever I turn off the terminal (which 
> is on the console serial port) the machine hangs.  The machine starts up 
> again when the terminal is turned back on (though sometimes it has been 
> thrown into ddb).

Perhaps the power-off causes a line break condition,
which will invoke DDB?
For the case without DDB, I don't have an idea.

best regards
Matthias