dlu@wobble.uucp (Doug Urner) (09/28/89)
I'm trying to figure out what this message *really* tells me. Xenix reports something like: Loose cable or garbage on line, port shut down, dev 8. Now thinking I knew something I went looking for an unterminated serial line or a login line that had been shutdown or something along those lines. No luck. The two terminals and a modem that had logins enabled still did (and if fact had users on them) and there were no "extra" lines in the output of who -a. So I thought "dev 8" must be clue of some sort but alas not that I could figure. On a system with a four port Computone board, COM1 and COM2 you don't get a minor number of 8 and major 8 is not a serial device. Any ideas? For the record the hardware is an ITT 10MHz '286 with the above mentioned Computone and two generic COM ports, one masquerading as a 2400 baud internal modem. I don't recall the version of Xenix but it is less than a year old. Thanks in advance, Doug -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Urner, uunet!wobble!dlu, Uni-Ops Systems, Bellingham, WA 206/676-5759