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Re: minicom misbehaves

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Thu Oct 29 17:58:21 1998

Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:53:36 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Michael Jinks wrote:
> 
> I have a PPP server with five modems on a Cyclades card, running RedHat
> 5.1.  I'm trying to use Minicom to dial out on an unused modem, and it
> works fine until I hang up the phone, at which time _all_ of the modems
> are being reset

Yipes.  The Cyclades uses a single IRQ for all the ports.  
Minicom must be issuing a hardware reset to the port, which
resets the entire card.  Bummer.

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