Re: Serial issue

From: Lee Revell
Date: Fri Aug 18 2006 - 16:26:20 EST


On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 16:25 -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Take it from someone who actually still uses dumb terminals every day,
> any thing over 9600 baud still requires some kind of flow control for
> reliable consistent operation. Software (Xon/Xoff) and or hardware
> (RTS/RTS/DTE) flow control.
>

Any idea why the serial console does not work at all with flow control
enabled (regardless of whether the host runs Linux or another OS)?

Lee

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