At 7:21 PM -0500 7/26/01, Phil Frost wrote:
>I don't know about bsd, but linux the serial driver can use DTR/CTS flow
>control instead of the usual RTS/CTS. This is usefull only when using the
>serial port in rs-232 mode (that's what pcs and most modems use). When
>doing a mac<->mac connection rs-232 isn't used. I don't recall the name of
>the serial protocall mac uses, but I do know it uses twisted pair and is much,
>much faster.

I think you are talking about LocalTalk.  That's a CSMA/CD usage of 
the port (like Ethernet) that runs at 230kbits/second.  Not supported 
by NetBSD at this time.

I suspect that the problem is what Greg Kritsch said really 
(interrupt handling) and stand corrected.  Since nobody seems to be 
using serial ports much there could be multiple problems I suppose. 
*sigh*


Cross my heart, strike me dead, stick a lobster on my head.
John Crichton -- Farscape, 6/15/01
h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu