Sparcstation 1 Dial In/Out (bug ?)

Dale Wyttenbach local!wytten at umn-cs.cs.cs.umn.edu
Wed Apr 11 06:17:05 AEST 1990


auspex!guy at uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris) writes:
>See TFM - in this case, TFM is the "SPARCStation 1 SunOS 4.0.3 Sun-4c
>Release Notes", on page 82 (in the "Rebuilding the Kernel" section), where
>it notes...

I have heard that there is a bug whereby the EEPROM settings for ttya are
mapped onto the settings for ttyb.  The result is that you pull a lot of
hair because you think that you have the ttya configured one way, but in
reality it is configured however ttyb is.  (I'm not sure if the alleged
mapping of tty settings is ttya -> ttyb, ttyb -> ttya, or ttya <-> ttyb).
Can anyone confirm and/or clarify this?

>In SunOS 4.1, I expect both the "flags" field and the EEPROM field to be
>replaced by the "local" flag in "/etc/ttytab".

Speaking as someone who has wrestled with ignore carrier detect on most
combinations of architectures and OS revisions, this sounds REAL COOL.

 Dale Wyttenbach		     |		...rutgers!umn-cs!wytten
 wytten at cs.umn.edu		     |		   wytten at umnacvx.bitnet
Computer Science Department Systems Staff--University of Minnesota, Minneapolis



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