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Subject: si driver names tty lines oddly
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>Number:         4717
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       si driver names tty lines oddly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct  6 22:30:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Sun Mar 22 18:09:29 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:  Sun Mar 22 18:09:46 PST 1998
>Originator:     Nick Sayer
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
just me
>Environment:

si0

>Description:

Specialix has a rather odd habit of misnaming the pins on their serial
ports. They come from the point of view that presumes that they are
providing DCE ports to connect to terminals.

This is exactly backwards from the traditional viewpoint. Thus,
sicontrol mstate will say that RTS is asserted, when it really
means that CTS is asserted. Same with DTR/DSR.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

This should either be documented as a heavy warning on the si or sicontrol
man page or the labels changed.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To: nsayer@quack.kfu.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/4717: si driver names tty lines oddly 
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 15:53:51 +0800

 nsayer@quack.kfu.com wrote:
 > 
 > Specialix has a rather odd habit of misnaming the pins on their serial
 > ports. They come from the point of view that presumes that they are
 > providing DCE ports to connect to terminals.
 > 
 > This is exactly backwards from the traditional viewpoint. Thus,
 > sicontrol mstate will say that RTS is asserted, when it really
 > means that CTS is asserted. Same with DTR/DSR.
 
 Specialix make several versions of the hardware, both DCE and DTE wiring.  
 Unfortunately, I've never actually been able to get hold of DTE wired 
 panels though. :-(  They seem more interested in having straight-through 
 wiring for connecting PC's as terminals than for modems.
 
 Yeah, the docs do need some big red flashing lights about this.
 
 Cheers,
 -Peter
 --
 Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>   Netplex Consulting
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: steve 
State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 22 18:09:29 PST 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Closed at originator's request. 
>Unformatted:
