Messages in this thread |  | | From | devnull@spaans ... | Date | Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:25:19 -0400 | Subject | Re: serial problems |
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 23:45:58 +0200 From: octave klaba <oles@ovh.net>
I use the serial cart with 5.03 / 2.2.17 Serial driver version 5.03 (2000-08-11) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled 00:0d.0 Serial controller: Timedia Technology Co Ltd: Unknown device 7168 (rev 01)
I realized it can crash easy a system: run kermit on a ttySX to an another box. when you get the terminal just disconnect the cable and connect it on a another serial port (without any output) now quit kermit: your system should be crashed.
Can you actually give me some details of how your system "crashed"? It certainly shouldn't have. Kermit will sometimes hang waiting for the terminal to flush if it's enabled hardware flow control and there are characters pending to be flushed. ^Z will generally break out of the waiting loop, at which point you can kill the kermit process with a kill command. ^C will also break you out back to the kermit prompt, at which point a second "quit" command will generally work.
another bug (known bug I think) is: if you use a serial cable not connected, your system crashs on the boot.
Huh? I have several machines without a serial cable, and it certainly doesn't crash on boot.
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