Sounds like CREAD in drivers/char/serial.c. Should be fixed in the client
app I think, but here's the workaround.
--- serial.c~ Wed Aug 15 18:29:24 2001
+++ serial.c Thu Aug 16 12:16:17 2001
@@ -1769,8 +1769,8 @@
/*
* !!! ignore all characters if CREAD is not set
*/
- if ((cflag & CREAD) == 0)
- info->ignore_status_mask |= UART_LSR_DR;
+ // if ((cflag & CREAD) == 0)
+ // info->ignore_status_mask |= UART_LSR_DR;
save_flags(flags); cli();
if (uart_config[info->state->type].flags & UART_STARTECH) {
serial_outp(info, UART_LCR, 0xBF);
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>
> well it turns out that ... serial ports under 2.4.7 and 2.4.9 don't really
> work, at least in single user mode, on the l440gx. output but no input.
> 2.4.0 is fine on the exact same piece of hardware. Interesting. Wonder
> what they broke.
>
> ron
>
