Subject: Re: Serial lines & terminals & getty. PLEASE help me out!
To: Ronny Svedman , shsrms <shsrms@erols.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/29/1998 10:39:02
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 04:37:54AM +0100, Ronny Svedman wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, shsrms wrote:
> 
> > Ronny Svedman wrote:
> > > 
> > > Sigh.
> > > 
> > >Ronny,
> > are you using a null modem?  this was the prob with mine!  I could not
> > get the banner without the right signals to say I was a real data
> > connection - like a modem.
> > bob
> 
> I simply can not believe, neither accept that the drivers in NetBSD would
> be so braindamaged as to require hardware hacking. there _MUST_ be a way
> to ignore carrier & dtr signals. there MUST be!! it is obviously not
> hardware braindamage (no hardware required signals) since Kermit can do

Normally, there is. And as your kermit works, the hardware driver has 
it implemented. You just need to switch it on.

If you would cite the ttys entry you are using, maybe we could tell you
whats wrong.

	-is