From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: Serial port problem - help please Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 10:42:20 GMT
In article <1993Feb10.090730.5866@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> anurag@astro.as.arizona.edu (Anurag Shankar) writes:
>I just installed SLS 0.99pl4 from tsx-11 on my hard disk.
>I posted an earlier message regarding problems with kermit
>complaining about "Could not write characters: I/O Error".
This happens when you run the serial line in nonlocal mode (ie the
kernel expects all the modem lines like carrier detect etc to work).
The solution is to do a "stty clocal < dev/ttyXX" or alternatively to
upgrade to 0.99pl5 which does this by default. It didn't happen in
earlier versions for the very simple reason that the tty hangup etc
functions weren't completely implemented then..
Linus