joan@rtech.UUCP (Joan Apodaca) (03/05/88)
We recently purchased a 30Mb, 640k, 8Mhz IBM PC-AT, and
IBM Xenix 2.0 (run time, text and development). The system
has one IBM serial/parallel adaptor and one AST advantage
board with a serial and parallel adaptor. The IBM board
is configured as COM1 and LPT2.
Everything installed and seems to run fine. However,
whenever we to try set the COM1 port speed with an stty
command the process hangs until we press delete then gives
the error message: stty: can not open /dev/tty00
Access rights on tty00 are 666.
If we enable the port and try to boot, the system also
hangs until we press delete, then continues with the boot
process, without giving any error messages.
We have used a DOS terminal emulator to check the port and
it seems to work just fine.
We have talked to IBM (through our dealer, arghh, is there
a direct line to IBM for XENIX support???) but the answers
seem to indicate they know even less than we do about XENIX.
If anybody out there has had this experience or has some
idea of what the problem might be, we would appreciate it
if you would send mail to us. When we find a solution, we
will post to the net.
Thanks in advance for your help!!!
joan (Egloff-Olson)
{sun, cpsc6a, mtxinu}!rtech!joan