Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!idallen
From: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Subject: Re: TIOCNMODEM/tty/VS2000
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.215101.2616@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: Permanent change to tty
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
References: <3356@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1893@riscy.enet.dec.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 1991 21:51:01 GMT
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In article <1893@riscy.enet.dec.com> frank@croton.enet.dec.com (Frank Wortner) writes:
>
>> ... we
>> have getty disabled and have run the following program.
>> (Which should permanently disable modem control.)
>> But when the system reboots, the port once again
>> requires modem signals to avoid having writes block.

Won't the "flags" word in your kernel sys/conf/ config file let you
permanently turn on/off the modem bits on your hard lines?

    device  ss0 at uba0 csr 0x200a0000 flags 0x0f vector ssrint ssxint 

"man ss" will help.
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
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