Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!gatech!uflorida!haven!purdue!decwrl!decvax!zinn!ditka!cocktrice!mdm From: mdm@cocktrice.UUCP (Mike Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: DTR Doesn't Go Away And They Know Keywords: Low Burner Flames Message-ID: <364@cocktrice.UUCP> Date: 26 Jan 89 01:47:53 GMT Reply-To: mdm@cocktrice.UUCP (Mike Mitchell) Organization: Mike's Playground, Santa Fe, New Mexico Lines: 38 I got off the phone with one of Microport's support techs about the DTR not dropping properly when a getty exits. The short story is that this is a bug which will get fixed "some day." In talking to the support tech, he stated that those waiting for the V3.2 release for the '386 will not suffer from the bug once they have upgraded. However, those of us with '286 machines and V2.4 have two options. Pay the phone company for another phone line so that it doesn't matter if the modem answers the line, or wait until the next V/AT release (which does not seem to be planned). The support tech assured me that there was someone working on the V/AT product, however. Trying to get an object module which fixes the bug was out of the question. The problem appears to be with the way the serial driver handles the modem control code. Somewhere it is not clearing a flag that states that the device is closed. After the momentary timeout which causes the driver to drop DTR, something else decides that there is a process waiting for an incoming call and the DTR gets reasserted. It looks like those of us with '286 boxes will have to wait for(ever?) a long time before we can get solutions to problems that we may have. The resources at Microport seem to be focused on the '386 world, and they have problems diverting attention to support the products which they already have in the field. It would be nice if the Microport management could assign resources to fix problems which are reported. If the resources do not exist, then it should be easy to justify budgeting to address the resource shortage just from the amount of unhappy people which post to this newsgroup. I would imagine that there are a few people in the world which would be interested in tackling the problems which seem to plague this news group (serial ports included). What is going to happen when Intel releases the 80486? Guess who will get stuck with a capable machine and no support? -- Mike Mitchell BELL: (505) 471-7639 2020 Calle Lorca #43 ARPA: mdm@cocktrice.UUCP Santa Fe, NM 87505 UUCP: ...!uunet!dmk3b1!cocktrice!mdm