Cliff Addy (caddy@unf.cis.unf.edu)
Tue, 31 Oct 1995 21:41:57 +0100
This is a repeat, the first one didn't seem to go through ...
>... yes, with the Cyclades cards, some
>weird things happen for some people (Marc has one, and it works nicely,
>strange enough). I can't really think of any reason why it should be
>mgetty's fault -- after all, all I do is "out of the POSIX book", and it
>works on dozens of platforms absolutely flawlessly :/
>
>I *strongly* suspect some leftover bugs in the Cyclades drivers, that
>mgetty happens to trigger and uugetty does not (there *are* weird things
>in there that I can precisely describe, so why not others that cause
>lockups?)
I was just about to buy the Cyclades 16-port box to use with linux and mgetty.
Is there a problem or not? I need mgetty to support dialin users and capture
their caller-id. No faxing or dialout on those ports. Should I go ahead or is
there a better way?
Cliff
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Cliff Addy caddy@unf.edu http://strumpet.cis.unf.edu
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of North Florida
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