On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:23:50PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > Have you checked the state of the DCD line in both cases? Look in > /proc/tty/driver/serial. HP box: 2: uart:16550A port:000003E8 irq:4 tx:12888 rx:147 RTS|CTS|DTR|DSR other box: 0: uart:16550A port:000003F8 irq:4 tx:18886 rx:299 RTS|CTS|DTR|DSR|CD So, yes. The other box has CD set (unless CD is not DCD). It might be that the serial cable used there does this, but I can't check it because the box is several hundreds of kilometers away. > Probably "works" on the first box because it happens to have DCD asserted > on the real serial port. Yes, that explains it. Thanks for your help, Michael -- Gentoo Linux developer, http://hansmi.ch/, http://forkbomb.ch/
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